Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/8269
Title: Underpinning success in the real world of corporations law
Contributor(s): Clarke, Catherine Therese (author); Wijeyewardene, Ingrid  (author)orcid ; Landrigan, Brian (author); Mackay, Iain (author); Fraser, Helen B  (author)orcid ; Werren, Kip  (author)orcid 
Publication Date: 2011
DOI: 10.1080/03069400.2011.578884
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/8269
Abstract: This paper reports on an action research project which sought to evaluate and guide ongoing teaching and learning development in Principles of Corporations Law, a semester-long unit of study. Typically, enrolments in this subject area include students from a range of cultural contexts for whom the legislative and administrative concepts of the unit are unfamiliar and who also experience significant difficulties with cultural conventions of communication and business practice. At our university, unit enrolments include a high proportion of distance education as well as non-English speaking background (NESB) students, predominantly from China, who have not studied units formerly considered as prerequisite, and many of whom experience difficulties with basic academic skills. As the development team planned and created teaching features to ensure better learning outcomes for these students, it was clear that some truly contextual thinking as well as some practicable solutions would be required. While we had determined in the redesign planning that scenario- or problem-based learning (PBL) with its emphasis on finding, understanding and using information in context, was best suited to help students acquire the skills that underpin success in the unit, our experience in the project indicated students had a broader range of more basic needs. It emerged that students were struggling with fundamental issues that would need to be addressed before real change could occur.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Source of Publication: The Law Teacher, 45(2), p. 214-230
Publisher: Routledge
Place of Publication: United Kingdom
ISSN: 1943-0353
0306-9400
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 130302 Comparative and Cross-Cultural Education
130299 Curriculum and Pedagogy not elsewhere classified
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 930103 Learner Development
930203 Teaching and Instruction Technologies
Peer Reviewed: Yes
HERDC Category Description: C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal
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