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The Development And Evaluation Of A High School Law Education Unit, Gail Kennedy
The Development And Evaluation Of A High School Law Education Unit, Gail Kennedy
Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive
The author developed and implemented a Law Education Unit in a metropolitan high school setting to promote the knowledge of law and the legal system of 130 high school seniors. The unit’s sims were to enable the student to identify sources of law, to describe how our legal system work and how individual rights and obligations are interrelated, to describe the consequences to the individual and society of disobeying the law and the personal and social values of obeying it, to define legal concepts, and to identify important Supreme Court decisions. The unit contained four basic components: introducing law, exploring …