Affect and Legal Education
Emotion in Learning and Teaching the Law
- 338 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About This Book
The place of emotion in legal education is rarely discussed or analysed, and we do not have to seek far for the reasons. The difficulty of interdisciplinary research, the technicisation of legal education itself, the view that affect is irrational and antithetical to core western ideals of rationality - all this has made the subject of emotion in legal education invisible. Yet the educational literature on emotion proves how essential it is to student learning and to the professional lives of teachers. This text, the first full-length book study of the subject, seeks to make emotion a central topic of research for legal educators, and restore the power of emotion in our teaching and learning. Part 1 focuses on the contribution that neuroscience can make to legal learning, a theme that is carried through other chapters in the book. Part 2 explores the role of emotion in the working lives of academics and clinical staff, while Part 3 analyses the ways in which emotion can be used in learning and teaching. The book, interdisciplinary and wide-ranging in its reference, breaks new ground in its analysis of the educational lifeworld of situations, communities, actors and interactions in legal education.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Dedication
- Introduction
- PART I: AFFECT, LEGAL EDUCATION AND NEUROSCIENCE
- PART II: AFFECT AND LEGAL EDUCATORS
- PART III: AFFECT AND LEARNING
- Index