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Journal article
Historical Thinking as a Skill in Public Affairs Graduate Education
Journal of public affairs education : J-PAE, v 20(1), pp 19-31
01 Dec 2014
Abstract
This article suggests how historical thinking, as a skill, might be integrated into MPA, MPP, and similar programs. I compare three modes of historical thinking-as a warehouse of analogues, a set of historical institutionalist models of stability and change, and as a "stream"-in terms of the likelihood that they provide useful skills for MPA/MPP graduates. I conclude that historical institutionalist models possess the greatest potential for skill building. Historical analogizing, though obviously a useful skill, is likely to be less portable than historical institutionalist models, and less useful as a tool for navigating the fragmented organizational terrain of the new governance. I argue as well that the potential of "thinking in time streams" is not as a skill, but rather as an ideal point against which skill at applying historical institutionalist models, and historical analogizing, might be judged.
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- Title
- Historical Thinking as a Skill in Public Affairs Graduate Education
- Creators
- Richardson Dilworth - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Journal of public affairs education : J-PAE, v 20(1), pp 19-31
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Number of pages
- 13
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Politics
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000410026000004
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85051179743
- Other Identifier
- 991019168091704721
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