Bridging the Discipline and Practice of Public Administration in Philippine Governance: Concerns and Prospects of the National College of Public Administration and Governance
Authors: Dela Cruz Luisito 
Published: October 2022

Knowledge generated no matter how intellectual and pedagogic without any aim to improve the conduct of lives of men is like having a nuance of perpetual light without any single idea of darkness. Hence, academic research in educational institutions must not only display epistemological, substantial, and methodological prowess but it must always keep abreast to man’s preoccupation no matter how mundane and worldly. While it is the aim of educational institutions to unveil ‘abstract’ elucidations pertaining to human existence it is also its duty to make the same man enjoy existence life without restraint, both ideologically and materially. It is within this backdrop that the paper examines how the Science of Public Administration as manifested by researches produced for the past decades in an institution that introduced it in the country had been carried-out vis a vis governance, leadership, and political issues that beset the Philippines at the time of the writing of these researches. The paper manifests, albeit subtly, the link between academic research program and their aims on one hand and the manner the ivory tower bends its knees to maintain correspondence with reality on the other.
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