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Not Quite Grown Up: The Difficulty Of Applying An Adult Education Model To Legal Externs, Linda H. Morton, Janet Weinstein, Mark Weinstein

Faculty Scholarship

Using andragogical theory developed by Malcolm Knowles as a foundation as well as a counterpoint, this article presents a new framework for teaching clinic students. Frustrated by tensions they encountered in teaching students whom they expected to have all the qualities of “adult learners,” the authors developed a new theory that blends humanistic as well as developmental theory. The article describes this new theory and evaluates why it works in clinical teaching.