Rules Remembered: Building Long Term Memory Through Stories Envisioned Within Casebooks
51 Pages Posted: 25 Feb 2009 Last revised: 28 Sep 2009
Date Written: February 23, 2009
Abstract
The author has developed and presents a pedagogical method whereby casebook cases can be analyzed in multi-dimensional aspects similar to a holographic projection. The method, entitled Advocacy Template, provides a teacher with a means for enticing students to look beyond the printed pages to uncover "the story" behind the litigation. By knowing the story that precipitated the confrontation, students are led into examining the roles an attorney must paly as the dispute evolves.
Employing the Story of the Case is the author's learning center. Learning through story-telling, an age-old educational practice, is applied here for inculating substantive law with analytical and practical skills exercises needed by the new century's advocates. The story and skills simulations create the opportunity for learning at a deeper and longer lasting level.
As presented and explained herein, the Advocacy Template incorporates solutions drawn from research findings about student learning weaknesses and understandings about how adults learn as gleaned from pedagogical experts. The primary goal of this tool for teachers is to stimulate active learning by students with less teaching to students. it is known that learning occurs at a deeper level when students are self-motivated to explore the many aspects of the human drama while applying "the law" at the same time. The primary goal for students is to provide them with a structured process that helpd reveal judicial meaning and opens a door for practicing lawyer skills. This pedagogical tool is potentially more effective because it seeks to simulate 21st Century vision that will stimulate learning for the long term.
Keywords: Advocacy Template, active learning, Story of the Case, stroy-telling, learning through story-telling
JEL Classification: K10, K19
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