Teaching Law: The Learner in the Driver's Seat

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Author(s): Sheela Jayabalan (Universiti Teknologi Mara, Malaysia)
Copyright: 2017
Pages: 13
Source title: Student-Driven Learning Strategies for the 21st Century Classroom
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Nor Aziah Alias (Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia)and Johan Eddy Luaran (Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-1689-7.ch020

Keywords: Curriculum Development and Instructional Design / Education / Information Science Reference / Instructional Design

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Traditional methods of teaching law such as the lecture method, Socratic method or the case method has become the predominant teaching pedagogies in most law schools. Emphasis is on teaching law students the blackletter law. However, when law students complete their formal undergraduate studies and move on to practice law, they face the crisis of being unable to cerebral the black letter law to real life situations. Applying doctrinal analysis and the observation of law teaching in Malaysia from the authors own experience as a law lecturer, the author explicates in this chapter that the reason behind this crisis is because the traditional methods merely imparts the knowledge of law to students but does not stimulate and ignite the cognitive skills which should be the ultimatum of teaching law students. Traditional methods of teaching law should be reformed. Law students should be taught to apprehend the law to real life situations or problems using the cognitive apprenticeship method. In other words, putting the learner in the driver's seat.

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