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Teacher Power In The Law School Classroom, Julie Macfarlane
Teacher Power In The Law School Classroom, Julie Macfarlane
Dalhousie Law Journal
Law teachers make choices over syllabus material, teaching methods and assessment formats, and thus inevitably exercise some control over what and how students learn. The actualpowerof each individual law professor will depend on the context of her particular classroom and her perceived credibility, generally defined by the university as the demonstration of a particular (rationalist) model of subject expertise. The intrinsic hierarchies and highly competitive culture of law school sustain this traditional model of knowledge along with its congruent image of the professor as autonomous, powerful and the focus of the classroom. Feminist law teachers and others who wish to …
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"Simple Truths" About Moral Education , Eleanor W. Myers
"Simple Truths" About Moral Education , Eleanor W. Myers
American University Law Review
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How We Teach: A Survey Of Teaching Techniques In American Law Schools, Steven I. Friedland
How We Teach: A Survey Of Teaching Techniques In American Law Schools, Steven I. Friedland
Seattle University Law Review
A person's law school teaching is predicated on or supported by one or more learning theories, therefore, Part II of this Article discusses cognitive and developmental learning theories and how they relate to law school teaching methods. Part III explains the teaching survey that was sent to the law schools, including the questionnaire used and the type of respondents who answered. Part IV of the Article reproduces the questionnaire results. Part V analyzes those results. This Article concludes that teaching methods should be consciously related to the learning process. Only by focusing on how students learn can a teacher truly …
Russian Women Lawyers In Post-Soviet Russia, Phoebe W. Brown
Russian Women Lawyers In Post-Soviet Russia, Phoebe W. Brown
Georgia State University Law Review
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