Exploring the role of emotions in clinical legal education: inquiry and results from an international workshop for legal educators

Clinical legal education provides a unique opportunity to engage with emotions. This article describes and reflects on an interactive workshop that examined the nature, meaning and significance of emotions in clinical legal education. Through a variety of incorporated staged activities, employing th...

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Published in:Law teacher 2019-10, Vol.53 (4), p.487-499
Main Authors: Seear, Kate, Bliss, Lisa, Galowitz, Paula, Klein, Catherine F.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Clinical legal education
emotions
pedagogy
reflection
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Summary:Clinical legal education provides a unique opportunity to engage with emotions. This article describes and reflects on an interactive workshop that examined the nature, meaning and significance of emotions in clinical legal education. Through a variety of incorporated staged activities, employing the teaching methods of scaffolding as well as backward design, participants explored aspects of the emotional dimensions of the relationships between clinical teachers/supervisors and their students, along with the relationship between students and their clients. Participants extracted ideas for how educators should approach emotions when they surface in legal clinics. This article provides a detailed overview regarding the rationale for the workshop, followed by a summary of the workshop plans and steps, before detailing key observations and lessons from the workshop.
ISSN:0306-9400
1943-0353
DOI:10.1080/03069400.2019.1667087