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The black box of governmental learning : the learning spiral -- a concept to organize learning in governments

Blindenbacher, Raoul, Nashat, Bidjan

2010

Overview

There are more poor people and poverty reaches further into middle-income countries around the world than ever before. Adequate governmental capacity development is considered one of the critical missing factors in current efforts to reduce poverty and, by doing so, to meet the millennium development goals. If the development of sustainable capacity is not given greater attention in the near future, development efforts in the poorest countries are expected to fail even if they are supported with substantially increased funding. One effective way to improve the quality of democratic governments is by their learning from the past and from each other's experiences. But to what extent are governments capable of and/or willing to learn? And if they are, what are they supposed to learn-and how? Is the way they learn different from the way individuals or organizations learn? Under what conditions do they learn best, and to what extent can learning events enhance their capacities to improve the performance of their public sectors? These and many related questions are examined in the black box of governmental learning.

• Publisher: World Bank,World Bank Publications,The World Bank,International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/World Bank
• Subject: ACTION LEARNING / Active learning / ADJUSTMENT / ADULT LEARNING / ATTENTION / ATTRIBUTION / BEHAVIORAL CHANGE / BEST PRACTICES / BOUNDARIES / BUREAUCRACIES / BUSINESS ASSOCIATIONS / CABINETS / CAPACITY BUILDING / CIVIL SOCIETY / CLIENT COUNTRIES / COLLABORATION / COLLECTIVE INTEREST / COMMON GROUND / COMMUNITIES / COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE / COMPETITIVE ENVIRONMENT / COMPLEXITY / CONSTITUENCIES / CONSTITUENTS / CONTENT ANALYSIS / CREATION OF KNOWLEDGE / DECENTRALIZATION / DECISION MAKING / DEMOCRACIES / DEMOCRATIC COUNTRIES / DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE / DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES / DISCOVERY / DISCUSSION / DISCUSSIONS / ECONOMIC GROWTH / EFFECTIVE LEARNING / ELEMENTS / Evaluation / EVALUATION CAPACITIES / EXECUTIVE BRANCH / EXTERNALIZATION / FIELD TRIPS / FOCUS GROUPS / GLOBAL ECONOMY / GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE / GLOBALIZATION / GOOD GOVERNANCE / Government / Government executives / Government executives -- In-service training / GROUP DYNAMICS / HUMAN DEVELOPMENT / HUMAN RESOURCES / HUMAN RIGHTS / IDEA / IDEAS / In-service training / INDIVIDUAL LEARNING / INDIVIDUAL NEEDS / INFORMAL LEARNING / INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY / INSIGHTS / INTEGRATION / INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT / KNOWLEDGE CONTENT / KNOWLEDGE CREATION / KNOWLEDGE FOR DEVELOPMENT / KNOWLEDGE HOLDERS / KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT / KNOWLEDGE SHARING / LEADERSHIP / LEADING / LEARNING / LEARNING ACTIVITIES / LEARNING APPROACH / LEARNING CONCEPTS / LEARNING EFFECT / LEARNING PROCESS / LEARNING PROCESSES / LEARNING THEORIES / LEGISLATORS / MEDIA / MOTIVATION / ONLINE QUESTIONNAIRE / Organization theory / ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING / PARLIAMENT / PARLIAMENTS / PERCEPTION / POLICY ISSUES / POLICY MAKERS / POLITICAL ACTIONS / POLITICAL CHANGE / POLITICAL PARTICIPATION / POLITICAL PARTIES / POLITICAL SYSTEM / PRACTITIONERS / PROBLEM SOLVING / PROGRAMMING / PROGRAMS / Public administration / Public administration -- Evaluation / PUBLIC SERVICES / PUBLIC WELFARE / QUEENS / RECOGNITION / REPRESENTATIVES / SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE / SOCIAL NETWORKS / SOURCES OF KNOWLEDGE / SPEECH / SUBJECT MATTER / TEACHERS / THINKING / TRAINING EVENTS / TYPE OF KNOWLEDGE / UNIVERSALITY / VARIETY / VISION / WILLING TO LEARN
• ISBN: 9780821384534, 0821384538, 9780821384749, 0821384740