Inclusive Socratic Teaching: Why Law Schools Need It and How to Achieve It

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Synopsis
For more than fifty years, scholars have documented and critiqued the marginalizing effects of the Socratic teaching techniques that dominate law school classrooms. In spite of this, law school budgets, staffing models, and course requirements still center Socratic classrooms as the curricular core of legal education. In this clear-eyed book, law professor Jamie R. Abrams catalogs both the harms of the Socratic method and the deteriorating well-being of modern law students and lawyers, concluding that there is nothing to lose and so much to gain by reimagining Socratic teaching. Recognizing that these traditional classrooms are still necessary sites to fortify and catalyze other innovations and values in legal education, Inclusive Socratic Teaching provides concrete tips and strategies to dismantle the autocratic power and inequality that so often characterize these classrooms. A galvanizing call to action, this hands-on guide equips educators and administrators with an inclusive teaching model that reframes the Socratic classroom around teaching techniques that are student centered, skills centered, client centered, and community centered.
Copyright:
2024

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
264 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780520390737
Related ISBNs:
9780520390713, 9780520390720
Publisher:
University of California Press
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Copyrighted By:
Jamie R. Abrams
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Reference, Business and Finance, Education, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics
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