Category: Learning Theory
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Patrick C Brayer, “A Law Clinic Systems Theory and the Pedagogy of Interaction: Creating a Legal Learning System”
This article explores several techniques to maximize student experience based on professional interactions in the law school clinic. It further sets out a pedagogical approach to clinic design and teaching by advancing a clinical systems theory, explaining how law students develop and grow by interacting with their learning system environment, including teaching students how to…
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Brook K Baker, “Learning to Fish, Fishing to Learn: Guided Participation in the Interpersonal Ecology of Practice”
This article argues that an ecological learning theory should be applied to legal clinics. Ecological learning theory emphasizes the value of meaningful co-participation in tasks, mutual respect from supervisors and peers, and responsiveness from the larger social environment. Ecological learning theory suggests that students can be relatively independent and self-directed learners. Supervisors do not have…
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Beryl Blaustone, “Teaching Law Students to Self-Critique and to Develop Critical Clinical Self Awareness in Performance”
This article presents a feedback process that will avert relationship damage before the learning process is irremediably disrupted. The feedback model consists of six stages driven by learning theory. Learning theory suggests that the feedback process should be structured as a source of learning, self-generated observations deepen and expand learning, self-assessment thrives in the face…