Sensus communis: experiential learning and the law school curriculum

sensus communis: experiential learning and the law school curriculum Paul Maharg Northumbria Law School

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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

… o r this way? (Dewey’s Laboratory School, U. of Chicago, 1901) http://tinyurl.com/6onvjp

Would you like to learn about history and town planning this way?

… o r by building a table-top town for a social life history project? (Dewey’s Lab School) http://tinyurl.com/59c93q

two origins of contemporary learning theory ,[object Object],[object Object],E.L. Thorndike John Dewey

E.L. Thorndike John Dewey 1. 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.

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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PI project: what students would have done differently… ,[object Object],[object Object]

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