kindergartens for civic and critical professionalism
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Kindergartens for civic and critical professionalism:
a transformative vision forlaw schools
Professor Paul Maharg
Miranda: O braue new worldThat has such people in’t.
Prospero: ‘Tis new to thee.The Tempest, V.i.215-17
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what do law schools do to students?
StressBenjamin, G. A. H., Kaszniak, A., Sales, B. & Shanfield, S. B. (1986) The role of legal education in producing psychological distress among law students and lawyers. American Bar Foundation Research Journal, 225-252.
Negative effect on values & motivationSheldon, K. M. & Krieger, L. (2004) Does law school undermine law students? Examining changes in goals, values, and well-being. Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 22, 261-286.
Teaching content and methods induce cynicismMcKinney, R. A. (2002) Depression and anxiety in law students: are we part of the problem and can we be part of the solution? Journal of the Legal Writing Institute, 8, 229-55. Rapaport, N.B. (2002) Is "thinking like a lawyer" really what we want to teach? Journal of the Legal Writing Institute, 8, 91-108
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what difference can legal education make?
Legal education has a weak socialising affect, much weaker than the centripetal power of the job market.
A. Sherr, A., Webb, J. (1989). Law students, the external market, and socialisation: do we make them turn to the City? Journal of Law and Society 16, 2, 225.
Legal subjects studied affect career ambitions, but had a neutral, short term or negative impact on the public service orientation of law students.
Boon, A. (2005). From public service to service industry: the impact of socialisation and work on the motivation and values of lawyers. International Journal of the Legal Profession, 12, 2, 229-260.
A study on socio-economic & ethnic diversity in Scotland found similar results.
Anderson, S., Maharg, P., Murray, L. (2003) Minority and Social Diversity in Legal Education, Scottish Government Official Publication.
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similar results in AU?
Survey of 2,500 students at U of NSW: law students demonstrated ‘comparatively low level of personal autonomy and a strong element of competitiveness compared to medical students’.
Tani, M., Vines, P. (2009) Law students’ attitudes to education: pointers to depression in the legal academy and the profession? Legal Education Review, 19, 1 & 2
Walsh (2007) reported the findings of an empirical study at the U of Queensland where discussion of sociopolitical and social justice issues and the development of clinical practices were among some of the approaches that would make a difference to student orientation to social justice
Walsh, T (2007) Putting justice back into legal education. Legal Education Review. 17, 119-34
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John Dewey(1859-1952)
At Columbia, he was involved in…
Special Conference on Logical and Ethical Problems of Law (1922), and conducted 1925-30 jointly with Edwin Wilhite Patterson
Student course, entitled Logical and Ethical Problems of the Law.
‘A democracy is more thana form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated activity.’
Democracy and Education (1916)
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Standard classroom c.1908. Would you like to learn about measurement and volume this way?
Thanks to Mike Sharples,http://tinyurl.com/6bzdgx
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…or this way? (Dewey’s Laboratory School, U. of Chicago, 1901)
http://tinyurl.com/6onvjp
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Would you like to learn about history and town planning this way?
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… or by building a table-top town for a social life history project? (Dewey’s Lab School)
http://tinyurl.com/59c93q
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two origins of contemporary learning theory
‘One cannot understand the history of education in the United States in the twentieth century unless one realizes that Edward L. Thorndike won and John Dewey lost.’ Lageman, E.C. (1989) The plural worlds of educational research, History of
Education Quarterly, 29(2), 185-214
E.L. Thorndike John Dewey
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E.L. Thorndike John Dewey1. Educational psychologist Philosopher & educationalist
2. Theoretician & experimentalist Theoretician and practical implementer
3. Explored the dyadic relationship between mind & the world
Interested in the arc between experience & the world
4. Adopted as precursor of a behaviourist approach to learning: assessment-led; laws of effect, recency, repetition
Pragmatist approach to learning: prior experience, ways of contextual knowing; democracy & education
5. Emphasised teaching strategies
Emphasised learning ecologies
6. Followed by: Watson, Skinner, Gagné; outcomes, competence & instructional design (ID) movements.
Followed by: Bruner, Kilpatrick, standards movement, Constructivist tradition.
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First kindergarten – opened 1837, Friedrich Fröbel Children played freely with blocks, bricks, tiles,
shapes: his school was designed for designers Developed the idea of freiarbeit and the
educational value of games.
Other approaches Montessori method Waldorf education Sudbury school High/Scope method
kindergarten approaches
Johan Heinrich Pestalozzi, 1746-
1827
Friedrich Fröbel,1782-1852
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Open-plan educationwhere spaces supportactivity & thinking
School as teacher Vertical groupings, 5-11,
instead of classes Articulated a pedagogy
of six selves & three I’s…
‘I am sure that teaching is an art and that teachers are artists. The teacher teaches what he is, more than what he knows, and as an artist, involved and giving of himself with love.’
George Baines
distributed learning:George Baines & primary education
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1. Open-plan building (the ‘articulate school’)2. Integrated day3. Family groupings of 40 children, aged 5-94. Team/co-operative teaching
characteristics of the Eynsham school
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All learning areas divided into bays:
open-plan building
Library Office Laboratory
Studio Kitchen House
Needleroom Music room Workshop
Theatre Withdrawing room
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No national curriculum, no LEA curriculum, no school curriculum
Periods are blocks of time that are flexible if required. Breaks are flexible: play and work are intertwined.
Setting out and clearing up were part of the day’s activities for both children & staff.
‘There is every effort made for the school to be a real community group and to develop skills and abilities of individuals and help them develop attitudes to enable them to be individuals yet concerned with the other individuals in their community.’
Eynsham teacher
integrated day
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Family groupings of 40 children, aged 5-9. Vertically organised (so that children could take mentoring
roles) + parental conferencing & teacher observation. Children from same families included in the group (unless requested out) and the group became a family that moved through time.
Teachers roles were radically altered. They: facilitated helped organise future work gave feedback to individuals & small groups reviewed progress with children suggested project work ensured principles were implemented
family groupings
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Teachers formed a co-operative: helping each other teach meeting regularly to plan & discuss activities and
resources All teachers recorded their practice in daily diaries, which
for some became a record that fed into writing about school activities.
Teacher practice exemplified Dewey’s democratic practices: ‘associated living’ & ‘associated thinking’
team teaching
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curriculum objectives
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curriculum methods& techniques
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six selves, three I’s
Six selves
Three I’s
Cf Gardner’s Five Minds – disciplined, creative, synthesizing, respectful, ethical. http://tinyurl.com/357seww
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‘Curriculum is everything that happens to a child’
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signature pedagogies (Lee Shulman)
Sullivan, W.M., Colby, A., Wegner, J.W., Bond, L., Shulman, L.S. (2007) Educating Lawyers. Preparation for the Profession of Law, Jossey-Bass, p. 24
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transforming the pedagogy…?
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experiential learning in law: SIMPLE
SIMulated Professional Learning Environment enables students to engage in online simulations of professional practice. Its special pedagogy is based on transactional learning:
active learning through performance in authentic transactions involving reflection in & on learning, deep collaborative learning, and holistic or process learning, with relevant professional assessment that includes ethical standards
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correspondence file
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Personal Injury project: assessment criteria
We require from each student firm a body of evidence consisting of:
fact-finding – from information sources in the virtual community)
professional legal research & comms formation of negotiation strategy – extending range of
prior learning in a curriculum spiral performance of strategy – correspondence + optional
f2f meetings, recorded
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learning spaces: three issues
1. Information management: how do students gather, track, archive, recall, analyze data?
2. Managing voice, register, genre.3. Discussion forum as
relational space, used as a back-channel, close to drafting& posting, and giving the firma professional identity as aunit, when working on sharedtasks.
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PI project: (some of) what students learned
extended team working real legal fact-finding real legal research process thinking in the project setting out negotiation strategies in the context of (un)known
information writing to specific audiences handling project alongside other work commitments structuring the argument of a case from start to finish keeping cool in face-to-face negotiations more effective delegation keeping files taking notes on the process...
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key issue: simulation tempo & complexity – GGSL curriculum map
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Baines’ learning spaces= curriculum spaces…?
Library Office Laboratory
Studio Kitchen House
Needleroom Music room Workshop
Theatre Withdrawing room
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feasibility? cost? impact?
Feasible…? Very: lots of experience out there in Strathclyde, Northumbria,
Glamorgan, ANU, UNH. Once sims are created using the SIMPLE Toolset, easy to maintain.
Cost…? Development of sims; learning support for students SIMPLE is open-source and freely available SIMPLE blueprints & guidance documents are freely available under
Creative Commons licences. Impact…? on students: ethical performance, learning legal argumentation,
practice of skills within professional value contexts; critique of professionalism; formative and high-stakes assessment; transactional learning
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further information [books]…
Maharg, P. (2007), Transactional learning in action, chapter 7, Transforming Legal Education. Learning and Teaching the Law in the Early Twenty-first Century, Ashgate Publishing.
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further information [books]…
Maharg, P., de Freitas, S., (2011). Digital games and learning: modelling learning experiences in the digital age, chapter 1, in de Freitas, S., Maharg, P. (eds)Digital Games and Learning, Continuum Press.
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further information [books]…
Maharg, P. (2011) Space, absence,silence: the intimate dimensions oflegal learning, chapter 13, in Maharg, P., Maughan, C., eds, Affect and Legal Education: Emotion in Learning and Teachingthe Law, Ashgate Publishing.
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1. Barton, K., McKellar, P., Maharg, P. (2007) Authentic fictions: simulations, professionalism and legal learning, Clinical Law Review, 14, 1, 143-93. Available at: http://tinyurl.com/5vautp
2. Maharg, P. (2011, in press). Simulation: a pedagogy emerging from the shadows. [Title unknown], edited by Oliver Goodenough. LexisNexis & Berkman Centre for Internet and Society, Harvard University.
3. Maharg, P. (2011, in press). ‘You are here’: learning law, practice and professionalism in the Academy, in Bankowski, Z., Maharg, P. del Mar, M., editors The Arts and the Legal Academy. Beyond Text in Legal Education, vol 1. Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot.
4. Maharg, P. (2012, forthcoming). 'Associated life’: democratic professionalism and the moral imagination, in Bankowski, Z., del Mar, M., eds, The Moral Imagination and the Legal Life. Beyond Text in Legal Education, vol 2. Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot.
5. Maharg, P. (2012, forthcoming), Beatific moral theory and legal learning, UK Centre for Legal Education, in Webb, J., [title unknown as yet], Sense Publishers, Rotterdam.
further information [articles]…
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further information [websites]…
http://simplecommunity.org
http://www.simshare.org.uk
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other models of legal ed kindergartens?
See Future Ed conference, Harvard:http://tinyurl.com/266qxxy
Kindergarten practices in other disciplines…?
Hasok Chang: published research andwriting by successive yeargroupsof undergraduate students as a book.
‘Directed community principle’ +‘inheritance principle’
Chang, H. (2005) Turning an undergraduate class intoa professional research community,Teaching in Higher Education, 10, 3, 387-94
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slides…
http://paulmaharg.com