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Teaching Law: The Learner in the Driver's Seat

Teaching Law: The Learner in the Driver's Seat

Sheela Jayabalan
Copyright: © 2017 |Pages: 13
ISBN13: 9781522516897|ISBN10: 1522516891|EISBN13: 9781522516903
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-1689-7.ch020
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Jayabalan, Sheela. "Teaching Law: The Learner in the Driver's Seat." Student-Driven Learning Strategies for the 21st Century Classroom, edited by Nor Aziah Alias and Johan Eddy Luaran, IGI Global, 2017, pp. 318-330. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1689-7.ch020

APA

Jayabalan, S. (2017). Teaching Law: The Learner in the Driver's Seat. In N. Alias & J. Luaran (Eds.), Student-Driven Learning Strategies for the 21st Century Classroom (pp. 318-330). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1689-7.ch020

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Jayabalan, Sheela. "Teaching Law: The Learner in the Driver's Seat." In Student-Driven Learning Strategies for the 21st Century Classroom, edited by Nor Aziah Alias and Johan Eddy Luaran, 318-330. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2017. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1689-7.ch020

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Abstract

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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