Why bother with legal history?
The revised Australian legal syllabus, the ‘Prescribed areas of knowledge’ (also known as the ‘Priestley 11’), comes into effect …
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Should online legal education be teacher-led?
Law teachers have worked to change their delivery. But should online legal education be teacher-led? Or should we look at the curriculum as well?
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Want to Make Learning Stick? Make it Harder
Making learning harder might sound unusual, but it might just be worth employing with your law students to make it stick.
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Law school ‘impostors’ need allies not accomplices
Do a quick search of ‘impostor syndrome’. What did you find? What about ‘impostor syndrome in law school’? That …
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Are law students ‘wax to be moulded’ or active learners?: John Locke goes to law school
This is the second in a series of posts on theories of learning and teaching – specifically the concepts of formal or explicit curricula and informal, implicit or ‘hidden’ curriculum.
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