This article examines instructional methodologies in clinical legal education and supervision through two central aims – developing personal awareness and examining values.
Supervisors should focus on developing personal awareness, which increases awareness of the subtle but often powerful aspects of attitude, intention, motive, or discomfort with others. Failing to focus on personal awareness may make the supervisory process more time consuming, confusing, and less likely to solve the client’s problems. Supervisors can facilitate students’ examination of values throughout the relationship, particularly in discussions of client strategy. This requires focus on two dimensions: the law itself and the lawyer’s own personal values, priorities, and behavioural tendencies.
Barry Cooke & James Taylor, “Developing Personal Awareness and Examining Values: Inter-Connected Dimensions of Supervision in Clinical Legal Education” (1978) 12:2 U Brit Colum L Rev 276.
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