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Teaching and learning in environmental law : pedagogy, methodology and best practice / edited by Amanda Kennedy [and three others].
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- The IUCN Academy of Environmental Law
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Environmental law--Study and teaching.
- Environmental law.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (308 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Cheltenham, England ; Northampton, Massachusetts : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2021]
- Summary:
- This unique book focuses specifically on teaching and learning in environmental law, exploring theory and practice as well as innovative techniques, tools and technologies employed across the globe to teach this ever more important subject. Chapters identify particular challenges that environmental law poses for pedagogy. It offers practical guidance and serves as a source of authority to legal scholars who are seeking to take up, or improve, their teaching and knowledge of this subject.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Copyright
- Contents
- Contributors
- 1. From 'marginality' to 'mainstream': the evolution of teaching and learning in environmental law
- PART I Values-based dimensions of environmental law
- 2. Engendering hope in environmental law students
- 3. Bringing the 'heart' into environmental law teaching
- 4. Placing natural resources law: preliminary thoughts on decolonizing teaching and learning about people, places, and law
- PART II Formats and methodologies for teaching environmental law
- 5. Is your textbook (still) really necessary?
- 6. Techniques for enhancing the lecture format in teaching environmental law
- 7. Teaching and learning environmental law using small group teaching methodologies
- 8. Enhancing learning in environmental law through assessment design
- 9. Environmental law clinics in Australia and the United States: a comparison of design and operation
- PART III The teaching of international environmental law
- 10. Game on! Game-based learning as an innovative tool for teaching international environmental law
- 11. Teaching international environmental law as a story
- PART IV Environmental law at the postgraduate level
- 12. The emergence of specialist postgraduate coursework programs in environmental law
- 13. Enriching the postgraduate environmental law classroom: combining mixed cohorts and intensive mode teaching
- 14. Doctoral research in environmental law (Part 1): rationale and some supervision challenges
- 15. Doctoral research in environmental law (Part 2): the student-supervisor relationship
- PART V Challenges for teaching environmental law
- 16. Of density and decline: reflections on environmental law teaching in the UK and on the co-production of environmental law scholarship
- 17. Never mind the platform, here's the pedagogy: e-learning in environmental law.
- 18. Teaching environmental law in Thailand
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-78990-853-1
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