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"Bush Law 101": Realising Place And Conscious Pedagogy In The Law Curriculum, Amanda Kennedy, Trish Mundy, Jennifer Nielsen
"Bush Law 101": Realising Place And Conscious Pedagogy In The Law Curriculum, Amanda Kennedy, Trish Mundy, Jennifer Nielsen
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
In 2012, a team of academics from six universities worked on an OLT-funded project, ‘Rethinking Law Curriculum: developing strategies to prepare law graduates for practice in rural and regional Australia’. The project was motivated by the declining proportion of lawyers being attracted to and remaining in practice in rural and regional Australia. The main outcome of the project was an open education resource designed to sensitise students to the realities of the rural and regional legal practice context in the form of a customisable curriculum package that can be embedded as components within existing units of study, or developed as …
Curriculum Reform: A Transformation Or Consumption Model For Politics And International Relations?, Susan N. Engel
Curriculum Reform: A Transformation Or Consumption Model For Politics And International Relations?, Susan N. Engel
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
For decades, politics and international relations (PaIR) programs across Australia have taken a smorgasbord or student consumption approach to curriculum development. This article examines whether, with the Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF), there has been a systematisation and transformation of curriculum. It surveys 21 programs and majors in the field offered at 10 universities. It analyses directions in program structure, content and to a lesser extent delivery in order to discover whether there is a shared picture of graduate outcomes. The model of curriculum as a product students' select elements of to consume has largely continued and there has been no …