Category: Observation
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Timothy Casey, “Reflections on Legal Education in the Aftermath of a Pandemic”
This article suggests that although some law school courses can be taught online, experiential courses and clinics are not fit for the online space given the specific learning outcomes and in-person benefits, particularly concerning well-being. Online clinics hindered the opportunities for students to benefit from their teachers as mentors, observational opportunities were limited, individual instruction…
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Antoinette Sedillo Lopez, “Making and Breaking Habits: Teaching (and Learning) Cultural Context, Self-Awareness, and Intercultural Communication through Case Supervision in a Client-Service Legal Clinic”
This article discusses the teaching and learning of cultural knowledge, awareness, and skills in clinical programs through a variety of methods, including research, reading, roleplay, case rounds, observation, and group discussion. The article offers teaching objectives that can be used to focus supervision and education on effective representation of clients from a variety of cultures.…
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Sara Chandler, “Can Litigators Let Go? The Role of Practitioner-Supervisors in Clinical Legal Education Programmes”
This book examines affect through connections between legal education and neuroscience. The authors rely on the following definition of affect set out by Price, 1998: “the affective domain involves the study of emotion: how they are expressed, how they are learned, how they arise, how they are experienced consciously and unconsciously how they are influenced…
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Minna J Kotkin, “Reconsidering Role Assumption in Clinical Education”
This article examines the proposition that clinical methodology, which emphasizes individualized instruction, requires adherence to the role assumption norm. Role assumption by students involves taking on the role of a legal professional while assisting clients, the general experiential framework of clinical legal education. Positive norm assumers will be successful in replicating the norms of the…
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Susannah Sage-Jacobson & Tania Leiman, “Identifying Teaching and Learning Opportunities within Professional Relationships between Clinic Supervisors”
This paper examines the Flinders Legal Advice Clinic through an appreciative inquiry research approach, allowing for reflection on past experiences, insights into positive events, identification of peak performance and the exploration of possibilities for future successful practice. “Appreciative inquiry” is a strengths-based approach that affirms individuals and brings greater focus on positives and strengths to…
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Jennifer A Gundlach, “This is a Courtroom, Not a Classroom: So What is the Role of the Clinical Supervisor?”
This article contains helpful advice on supporting clinic law students in courtroom settings. It includes several suggestions for exercises and supervisory discussions with the student to enrich the experience, most of which occur at the post-court appearance stage. The author argues that supervisors should facilitate the development of students’ professional autonomy through theory development, collaborative…
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Stephen Billet & Linda Sweet, Multiple Dimensions of Teaching and Learning for Occupational Practice
This chapter examines medical students’ learning through their clinical experiences. Much of medical student learning is founded on the concept of relational interdependence; the relational nature of the interdependence between the social norms, forms, and practices that individuals are provided. Observation, questioning, engaging in activities, modeling, and parallel practice, amongst others, all contributed in different…
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William P Quigley, “Introduction to Clinical Teaching for the New Clinical Law Professor: A View from the First Floor”
Recognizing that there are limited resources aimed at training clinic supervising lawyers, this article aims to assist new clinic teachers in defining their teaching styles. It also highlights commonly asked questions such as, “how much control over cases should students have?” and, “what is involved in supervising the work of students?”. The author notes that…