Book chapter
Building community in the law school classroom
Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Legal Education, pp 40-44
09 Jan 2025
Abstract
This entry presents an approach to legal education pedagogy focused on community building as an essential component of effective teaching and learning. It demonstrates how this approach radically departs from the norms of the traditional law school classroom, which emphasise hierarchy, competition, and conformity. Creating community requires law teachers to make an ongoing investment in prioritising relationships and wholeness through careful and deliberate attention to issues of equity, inclusion, belonging, and wellbeing. The entry begins with a description of traditional law school culture, and then traces important developments in the legal education field that have helped create a shift toward pedagogical methods that emphasise collaboration, experiential learning, and reflective practice. It goes on to identify six core ingredients for community building in the law school classroom, which also offer a framework for trauma-informed and healing-centred teaching and learning.
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- Title
- Building community in the law school classroom
- Creators
- Susan L Brooks
- Publication Details
- Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Legal Education, pp 40-44
- Series
- Elgar Concise Encyclopedias in Law
- Publisher
- Edward Elgar Publishing; Cheltenham, UK
- Number of pages
- 5
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Thomas R. Kline School of Law
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-105000746712
- Other Identifier
- 991022027423404721