Hervey, T.K. orcid.org/0000-0002-8310-9022 and Wood, J. (2016) “Now I understand what you were trying to do, I see that this was the best module I had at University”: Student Learning Expectations Reviewed Eight Years Later". European Journal of Current Legal Issues, 22 (3). ISSN 2059-0881
Abstract
The article reflects on a small longitudinal case study of a large compulsory module in a pre-1992 red-brick law school, using a narrative discursive method. It suggests that "alternative" methods of university law school teaching, such as Problem Based Learning, are experienced by students at the time as unsatisfactory. After being in graduate employment for several years, the students' experience has entirely changed. At that stage in their development and careers, students understand the relationships between the skills being fostered in such modules, and employment in the legal or other graduate professions. Processes, such as the Teaching Excellence Framework, that rely too strongly on contemporaneous assessments of the quality of student learning, such as the National Student Survey, create strong individual and institutional incentives to avoid such "risky" teaching. This undermines the stated aim of enhancing "employability" through university education.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2016 The Author(s). This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in European Journal of Current Legal Issues. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > School of Law (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 28 Sep 2016 09:26 |
Last Modified: | 22 Dec 2016 09:30 |
Published Version: | http://webjcli.org/article/view/505/686 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:105178 |