ERIC Number: EJ1074710
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2015
Pages: 16
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ISSN: EISSN-1832-8342
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Creating Practice Ready, Well and Professional Law Graduates
Ferguson, Anneka
Journal of Learning Design, v8 n2 p22-37 2015
There is a growing movement to create successful, ethical, well-rounded and practice ready legal professionals both in terms of their content knowledge and their mental well-being. As a Legal Teaching "profession" it is incumbent on us to answer this call in a responsive, creative, integrated, well researched and evaluated manner. This paper provides a suggested and evaluated framework for how this call can be met without resorting to "add on" subjects (no matter how well-intentioned), that stand outside the "normal" law school curriculum. Instead of partitioning well-being and professionalism into separate silos, it is suggested that all efforts must be made to integrate the seeds, thoughts, and actions of ethics, well-being, and professionalism into as many aspects of each of our programs as possible.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Legal Education (Professions), Ethics, Knowledge Level, Well Being, Professional Identity, Simulation, Values, Curriculum Development, Attitudes, Statistical Analysis, Student Surveys, Mentors
Queensland University of Technology. GPO Box 2434, Brisbane, Queensland 4001, Australia. Tel: +61-7-313-80585; Fax: +61-7-313-83474; e-mail: jld@qut.edu.au; Web site: http://www.jld.qut.edu.au
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia
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