Search
Pages (30)
Creativity in the law curriculum
The ‘creativity in the law curriculum’ stream at Learning in Law Annual Conference 2007 included the following papers: Class acts: script and performance in law school – Gary Watt (University of Warwick) read report below Law and literature and the L…
Postgraduate to professional: creativity and opinion writing skills
perhaps we should consider what is meant by creativity. What common thread links every piece of great art, whether it be a symphony, a novel, a poem or a sculpture? Even a pop song? Each has its own coherent structure, its own particular architecture. So it is with opinion writi…
A romantic revolution in legal education
contributors | abstract | presentation | biographies Contributors Dr Dawn Watkins (University of Leicester) Format Paper presentation Abstract The caged bird sings with a fearful trillof things unknown but longed for stilland his…
Beyond text in legal education
In their paper Zenon Bankowski (University of Edinburgh) and Alicja Rogalska gave an overview of and involved participants in activities based around the Beyond text in legal education project. The session was blogged on Digital Directions and Zeugma. An article about the p…
Beyond text in legal education
In this article from the Autumn 2009 issue of Directions Zenon Bankowski and Maksymilian Del Mar report on one of the projects funded under the AHRC’s Beyond Text programme, focusing on the values and experiences uncovered by the process of moving beyond text in law and le…
LILI 2003 closing plenary
to reflect on notions of imagination and creativity and, in the words of one participant, “tying the threads together”. James presented of the Imaginative Curriculum Project in terms of aligning student learning with assessment processes – a theme echoed thr…
Developing the creative curriculum: exploring learning styles
In her session at the UKCLE event on creativity and the law curriculum Keren Bright (Open University) explored the issue of learning styles. Learning styles – simply different ways of learning – underpin any creative development of the curriculum. Theorists say t…
Learning in Law Annual Conference 2007
process and education for sustainability Creativity in the law curriculum – approaches described include peer assisted learning, using a wiki and ‘teaching without talking’ Making good lawyers – making lawyers good – focused on conceptions of et…
Reflective activities matrix
Feelings Enhance Creativity Improve Writing improve Communication Enhance Interaction with Others Support Project Work …
Papers presented at 2007 Conference
Canada) Postgraduate to professional: creativity and opinion writing skills – Ros Carne (City University) Teaching through proxy as a response to the internationalisation of legal education – Grace Li (University of Technology, Sydney) Telling it like it is: gi…
Graduate standards in law: a framework for describing graduateness in law
sources in a coherent way evaluation and creativity: ability to make an informed judgment about the importance and merits of particular solutions; able to offer reasoned arguments in favour of a chosen point of view; ability to make a personal judgment about the merits of comp…
Making VLEs more interesting
In his session at the UKCLE event on creativity and the law curriculum in 2008 Michael Bromby (Glasgow Caledonian University) provided a taster of discussion boards and RSS feeds, bolt-ons to the ‘traditional’ VLE he uses with the aim of making learning more interesting as w…
Learning in Law Annual Conference 2008: (Dis)integration...designs on the law curriculum
Reports and links to papers on creativity at Learning in Law Annual Conference 2008: PodLaw: developing a portable learning environment to enhance the study of law – Chris Hull (St Mary’s University College) link to paper Fostering creativity through e-lear…
Learning in Law Annual Conference 2008: (Dis)integration...designs on the law curriculum
Australia and the emerging SIMPLE community Creativity – approaches described include mobile learning and using wikis, as well as innovative curriculum design Critique – setting up a law school, legal education in Wales, e-learning issues and student motivation …
Chair's report: Fiona Cownie
legal education entails, and to allow their creativity and imagination to break free, just as the Romantics broke away from the restrictions of Classicism. Student reaction was mixed, ranging from the very enthusiastic to a refusal to participate in the exercise. Dawn’s pres…
Portrait of the online tutor as Thelonius Monk
between external structure (of the music) and creativity. Improvisation in jazz groups and improv theatre are areas where the collective effort of the group contributes to the whole. One researcher described it as ‘collaborative emergence’ – collaborative, beca…
UKCLE vision
accordance with these organisational values Creativity collaborate with our subject community to generate innovative and effective learning and teaching use our resources to support the development of high quality, original, scholarship of teaching and learning law …
Reflecting on 2009 Conference
is not criticism or pessimism but simply creativity. If something works for 12 students there must be a way of also making it work for 120 – with a few modifications perhaps. The programme was intense but the coffee breaks and lunch provided good opportunities to network…
Visiting Fellowship Scheme
the Royal Shakespeare Company to focus on creativity and performance in teaching and learning In addition to UKCLE, the university also hosts the Academy’s History Subject Centre. About the Fellowship A UKCLE Fellowship will be awarded to support the applicant in u…
Interdisciplinary learning for the work-based student
Learning in Law Annual Conference 2008 on creativity in e-learning and at Learning in Law Annual Conference 2009 on Developing research skills. In December her article, The role of new technology in improving engagement among law students in higher education, appeared in JILT 20…
Challenges of teaching law to non-law students
thinking skills, academic achievement and creativity. The teacher must recognise that there is a positive correlation between specific student cognitive styles and the need for teachers to expand their instructional model repertoire. Adopting a variety of instructional modes a…
and our understanding of imagination and creativity can all usefully be discussed within the framework of connectionist models (Y Bar-Yam, 1997, ch 3) The discussion is thus one that educationalists need to come to terms with. But this is not my primary focus for today. What I a…
Now We Are Ten
technocentric, subject, lacking human warmth and creativity. Of course, it doesn’t have to be like that. We have a choice about the mark we leave on the world, and in times of economic stringency, when just getting by seems hard enough, our aspirations need to be kept al…
'On trial': tutor as silent witness
In this article from the Autumn 2007 issue of Directions Kirsten Hardie describes the use of mock trials to develop creative learning experiences in a new context. Kirsten, a National Teaching Fellow, teaches graphic design at The Arts Institute at Bournemouth. She is keen to de…
Good people speaking well: legal education through modern languages
detail in the law degree contrasts with the creativity in the French degree, yet having to work with a text in a foreign language means that the students do have to work in detail. The year abroad is really good for the comparative aspect, as law is taught by rote learning in Fr…
View from afar...a personal reflection
e-learning seminar series and a seminar on creativity in law teaching. Clearly not all law teachers will be able to attend, but the events will give rise to valuable website resources and other publications enabling a wide distribution of the materials covered. The Academy’s…
What needs to change to meet the challenges facing legal education over the next 10 years?
students E-learning requires increasing creativity, not just technical skills John Stanford: Attempts by all stakeholders to reduce costs – large, grand campaign to get the public to understand the value to all of university education and facilitate government f…
How can small group work be assessed?
negotiation overspecify – give room for creativity and original thought Other points to consider when planning assessment Whatever you decide you’re going to do, please bear in mind three things: That assessment can work against learning by an over-emphasis on t…
Snails in bottles and language cuckoos...evolution in the law curriculum?
with underlying keywords – community, creativity, critique, engagement, evolution, experience, integration and value(s) – on which the keynotes and parallel sessions were based. As always at the conference (this year’s was the tenth), the evolution taking place in …
Why mooting?
There are many different ways of introducing creativity and active learning within the curriculum. A common problem when mooting is considered is that there is a misconception as to what mooting actually is. When considering using a moot it is suggested that careful thought be g…
Comments
There are no comments at this time