The Public Administration as an object of training: its curricular dimension

Abstract

This work can be considered an assay with respect to examine the curricular dimension involved in the proposals of training in Public Administration. Te curricular component is considered from different orders, other than the difference of themes or starting points that it poses, it allows to deploy them at different levels:

First, the curriculum is examined with respect to the transformations that have occurred in the last decades in shaping the feld of higher education (the centrality acquired by the curricular dimension, with the help of a progressive role in the educational university field).

Then the work proceeds on a more conceptual defnition of the curriculum involved in making some more detained analysis realizing the various social, political, educational and institutional aspects involved. In this context, signifcant issues are present on the relationship between production and reproduction of knowledge and consider some of its implications more operational order, in designing or updating training programs.

Once considered the curriculum in these broader conceptual terms , the work focuses on two issues of the specialty of public administration, that the theoretical treatment of the curriculum opens:
- Te tension between the professional and academic training as bias, but also the configuration of the field of this specialty and,
- Disputes involving establish any disciplinary ordination between different bases, given a multidisciplinary settings such as Public Administration.

For both aspects, any position taken by way of "desirable orientations" are also presented so that this kind of tension between bias and between disciplines or areas of knowledge can be articulated productively in a training proposal or strengthened correspondingly wider in specialty conformation.

Conocimiento Educactivo, Vol. 3, 2016: 11-32