Category: Pedagogy
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Carol Boothby, “Supervising the Supervisors: What are the Challenges Inherent in Teaching in a Clinic Environment and how can Colleagues be Supported on the Transition from Practitioner to Practice-Informed Teacher and Researcher”
This PhD thesis centres the question of how clinicians understand their roles as lawyers/supervisors/academics, particularly in the transition from one role to another. It is wide-ranging and draws on a variety of research methods. The author tries to capture the unique role of the clinic supervisor, which bridges several roles and identities. “In many respects,…
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Susan L Brooks, “Using Therapeutic Jurisprudence to Build Effective Relationships with Students, Clients and Communities”
This article suggests that clinicians should adopt a therapeutic jurisprudence approach. There are several key principles integral to therapeutic jurisprudence that clinicians in legal clinics should utilize. These principles include: modelling (i.e., how communication impacts students and how supervisors’ interactions may lead students to mirror what they observed); boundaries and limit-setting; transference and counter-transference, the…
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Stephen Billett, Mimetic Learning at Work: Learning in the Circumstances of Practice
This book examines mimesis and mimetic learning. Mimesis comprises the process of observation, imitation, and rehearsal, encompassing the innate and foundational bases for how humans construe and construct what they experience and how they act, particularly in relation to goal-directed behaviour. Mimesis involves the generation of representation of what is being observed and the process…
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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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Neil Kibble, “Reflection and Supervision in Clinical Legal Education: Do Work Placements Have a Role in Undergraduate Legal Education”
This article sets out a number of theories and criticisms of supervision in clinical legal education. The author suggests that supervision requires encouraging the learner to enter the zone of proximal development. The zone of proximal development (originally developed for childhood learning) refers to the gap between what children can accomplish independently and what they…
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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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Harriet N Katz, “Reconsidering Collaboration and Modeling: Enriching Clinical Pedagogy”
This article suggests that non-directive supervision, collaboration and modelling enhance students’ experience and understanding of the lawyer’s role within clinical education. Collaboration and modelling are highly intertwined, the former reinforcing the latter. Non-directive supervision facilitates the advancement of two primary educational goal: fully understanding the role of lawyers and developing a mode of continued growth…
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Carolyn Grose, “Flies on the Wall or in the Ointment – Some Thoughts on the Role of Clinic Supervisors at Initial Client Interviews”
This article uses the question of whether or not supervisors attend initial client interviews with their students as a lens through which to examine other questions about supervision theory, clinical pedagogy, and professional responsibility. Ultimately, the article concludes that the decision whether to attend client interviews can be one that the supervisor makes on a…