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Developing Professional Identity Through Reflective Practice
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Kleinhaus, Suzanne Darrow |
| Copyright Year | 2012 |
| Abstract | From her vantage point of time and experience, the author discusses one approach to teaching clinical law courses — integrating skills training with the development of professional identity through reflective practice — as a model that might be followed by others. Moreover, the author suggests that the approach might be adopted for use in other parts of the curriculum as well, thus providing a means for addressing the Carnegie Foundation’s call for more “balanced learning” in law school within its report, Educating Lawyers. This report had concluded that legal education could be significantly improved to “better serve the needs of the bar and the nation as a whole,” and raised critical questions and concerns, most notably the need for integration of the law student’s learning experience. The author suggests it might be possible to introduce some changes without disruption or difficulty by building, wherever possible, on what is already in place. Clinical-legal education comes first to mind when combining the theoretical with the practical, but it is not the only opportunity for doing so. Still, it is more likely, however, that the first steps toward enhanced integrative learning will occur in the clinical setting. In the clinical legal classroom, it is possible to combine more than theory with practice: guided by appropriate “leading questions,” students can be directed to expand their substantive and ethical understanding as well as develop their practical lawyering skills. Moreover, the clinic can be used as a vehicle for developing self-reflection, an essential skill for integrative learning. |
| Starting Page | 11 |
| Ending Page | 11 |
| Page Count | 1 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Volume Number | 28 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://digitalcommons.tourolaw.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1244&context=lawreview |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
