Lawteach

An interactive method for effective large group teaching

Bibliographic Data

ID14690342
AuthorsDiana M Tribe, Diana Tribe (University of Huddersfield), A J Tribe
Year1987
Volume12
Issue3
Pages299-310
Publication date1987-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueStudies in Higher Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0307-5079 • E-ISSN: 1470-174X
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03075078712331378082
OpenAlexW1995900886
LanguageEN
References cited15

This paper outlines the piloting, development and evaluation of a curriculum innovation for undergraduates called Lawteach. The innovation was designed to teach law to large groups at progressively higher levels of cognitive functioning. The innovation is a substantial modification of the case method, in which the lecturer poses questions to students, based on source materials which have been studied by them in advance. Students' responses to these questions are built upon and extended by the lecturer's use of hypothetical problems, to enable students to develop concepts at increasing levels of complexity. Traditional lecturing in which the lecturer talks and the students take notes does not occur at all. In the Lawteach innovation the case method was substantially modified by the application of aspects of learning theory to develop “meaningful reception learning ̊d (Ausubel, 1968) at increasingly higher levels of cognitive functioning (Bloom, 1956). The method was evaluated empirically

Cognition · Cognitive skill · Curriculum · Higher education · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Teaching method · Artificial Intelligence in Law · Comparative and International Law Studies · Computer Science · Legal Education and Practice Innovations · Psychology

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