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Industry Needs And Tertiary Journalism Education: Views From News Editors, Trevor Cullen, Stephen J. Tanner, Marcus O'Donnell, Kerry Green
Industry Needs And Tertiary Journalism Education: Views From News Editors, Trevor Cullen, Stephen J. Tanner, Marcus O'Donnell, Kerry Green
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
This research paper discusses the findings from a 2012 Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) sponsored project that canvassed the views of news editors around Australia about the "job readiness" of tertiary educated journalism graduates. The focus of this paper is limited to responses from news editors in Western Australia. Data was collected via face to face interviews with eleven news editors in Perth, Western Australia. The editors work in print, online, broadcast and television and all of them employ journalism graduates. The aim was to assess whether the five university based journalism programs in Perth provide graduates with the …
The Socratic Method As A Pedagogical Method In Legal Education, Lowell Bautista
The Socratic Method As A Pedagogical Method In Legal Education, Lowell Bautista
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
The Socratic Method has been traditionally regarded as the core of legal pedagogy. It has come to define legal education for nearly two centuries and remains a potent influence on the method of instruction found in most modern law schools around the globe. In particular, the Socratic Method is almost universally acknowledged as the defining characteristic of the American legal education system. In fact, the Socratic Method is so entrenched in modern American legal pedagogy that it has been opined that ‘a law school just isn't a law school without the Socratic method.’ In the Australian context, the suggestion that …