Emerging Pedagogies for Policy Education

Sreeja Nair is Assistant Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. With a specialization in environmental policy, she studies policy processes and tools of governments to address uncertainty in policymaking. Her research focuses on Asia and covers diverse environmental and socio-technical policy issues, including climate change, food security and more recently, digital transformation.   Navarun Varma is Lecturer (Resident Fellow) and Assistant Director of External Programmes at Residential College 4, National University of Singapore. He specializes in teaching and research on interdisciplinary topics related to disaster resilience and environmental governance.

Chapter 1: Emerging innovations in policy pedagogies and practice in Asia.- THEME I: BEYOND BOUNDARIES.- Chapter 2: Role of trans-disciplinarity in public policy pedagogy- Experience from three contexts of public policy education.- Chapter 3: Teaching comparative public policy comparatively.- Chapter 4: Policy Learning through Fieldwork Engagement: A Geography classroom – fieldwork assessment on issues of water for policy understanding.- Chapter 5: Bridging a North-South epistemological divide in public policy research and education.- THEME II: DIGITALIZATION OF POLICY STUDIES.- Chapter 6: Teaching Digital Natives.- Chapter 7: How the Digital Age is Transforming Higher Education Public Policy.- Chapter 8: A Connected Government: The Use of Social Media and the Betterment of Public Service.- THEME III: NOVEL CAPACITIES FOR POLICY EDUCATION.- Chapter 9: Building Public Policy Capacity through Systems Thinking & System Dynamics Modeling Education in an Undergraduate Residential College Setting.- Chapter 10: Uses of serious games and simulations in education.- Chapter 11: Learning by ‘Doing’ and then Reflecting.- Chapter 12: Combining qualitative and quantitative data for policy research and practice: Evaluation, learning, and aid effectiveness of the Asian Development Bank.- ​Chapter 13: Looking Ahead: opportunities and challenges for policy education and practice in Asia.