Learning to reflect in the first year of legal education : the key to surviving legal education and legal practice
McNamara, Judith, Field, Rachael, & Brown, Catherine (2009) Learning to reflect in the first year of legal education : the key to surviving legal education and legal practice. In Proceeding of the First Year in Higher Education Conference, 29 June - 1 July 2009, Townsville, Queensland.
![[img]](http://eprints.qut.edu.au/style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png)
Abstract
Lawyers and law students suffer significant rates of depression and substance abuse. This paper suggests that Law Schools have an obligation to assist students to develop the emotional intelligence necessary in order to cope with the stressful nature of legal practice. We draw on Schön’s discussion of the indeterminate zone of professional practice to suggest that reflective practice is the means by which students can become sufficiently emotionally intelligent to become balanced and happy lawyers. We suggest that incorporating reflective practice in intentional curriculum design in the first year of law is an effective first step in assisting students to develop the emotional intelligence necessary to survive the study and practice of law.
Citations:
Citation countsare sourced monthly from Scopus and Web of Science citation databases.
These databases contain citations from different subsets of available publications and different time periods and thus the citation count from each is usually different. Some works are not in either database and no count is displayed. Scopus includes citations from articles published in 1996 onwards, and Web of Science generally from 1980 onwards.
Citations counts from the Google Scholar™ indexing service can be viewed at the linked Google Scholar™ search.
Full-text downloads:
Full-text downloadsdisplays the total number of times this work’s files (e.g., a PDF) have been downloaded from QUT ePrints as well as the number of downloads in the previous 365 days. The count includes downloads for all files if a work has more than one.
| ID Code: | 27280 |
|---|---|
| Item Type: | Conference Paper |
| Additional Information: | The contents of this proceeding can be freely accessed via the conference's website (see official URL) |
| Keywords: | Legal education, First year experience, reflective practice |
| ISBN: | 9781741072822 |
| Subjects: | Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification > EDUCATION (130000) > EDUCATION SYSTEMS (130100) > Higher Education (130103) |
| Divisions: | Current > QUT Faculties and Divisions > Faculty of Law Current > Schools > School of Law |
| Copyright Owner: | Copyright 2009 Judith McNamara, Rachael Field, Catherine Brown |
| Deposited On: | 09 Sep 2009 08:21 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Mar 2012 00:04 |
Export: EndNote | Dublin Core | BibTeX
Repository Staff Only: item control page