Legal Education: Theory & Practice (Spr) (M5010B)
Legal Education: Theory and Practice (Spr)
Module M5010B
Module details for 2022/23.
15 credits
FHEQ Level 6
Module Outline
This module provides law students with a taster to an alternative career path, one of teaching law as opposed to practising law. In a supportive environment, students will engage in reflexive and theoretical explorations of contemporary issues in legal education (eg why decolonise the law curriculum) and active based approaches to teaching law. Drawing on pedagogic literature, students will design and deliver a lesson plan and offer suggestions for reform for legal education/higher education as part of the ‘Policy Lab’. Central to this module is that it provides students with an opportunity to enhance and excel in a range of transferable, and employable, skills including communication, presentation, teaching delivery, critical thinking, and reflexive practice and evaluative judgement. This module adopts a critical, but active, approach.
Module learning outcomes
Reflect on your own experiences as a learner, and potential teacher, of legal education in a critical and theoretically informed way.
Draw from current pedagogic literature to design a sample lesson plan for a seminar in a law module.
Using active based learning approaches, deliver an element of your sample lesson plan.
Critically appraise and reflect on current research relating to the nature of debates informing, and relevant to, the field of legal education/higher education.
| Type | Timing | Weighting |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio (5000 words) | Semester 2 Assessment Week 1 Mon 16:00 | 100.00% |
Timing
Submission deadlines may vary for different types of assignment/groups of students.
Weighting
Coursework components (if listed) total 100% of the overall coursework weighting value.
| Term | Method | Duration | Week pattern |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spring Semester | Seminar | 3 hours | 00000011000 |
| Spring Semester | Seminar | 2 hours | 11111100110 |
How to read the week pattern
The numbers indicate the weeks of the term and how many events take place each week.
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