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Education 488-4

Special Topics: Law in the Curriculum

Summer Session, 1984

Instr. : Wanda Cassidy

Tuesdays/Thursdays, 1:00 - 4:50 p.m.*

Location: On Campus

(*please note that an error has been made in the pre-registration booklet

showing the time as Tues./Thurs. evening, 5:30 - 9:20 p.m. Instead this

evening time is for the other special topics Law Course 487: Law for the

Classroom Teacher.)

Objectives - "(A) rising tide of interest in law has been rushing through

Canadian schools ..

(Kindred, Canadian Community Law Journal, 1979:20)

Research shows that teachers are just as interested in teaching law as

students are in learning it. In B. C. schools law is evident in the

elementary school curriculum as well as in secondary courses, including

the required Social Studies and Consumer Education program and Law II

Business Education electives.

Education 488-4 is a methodology course. Its purpose is to provide teachers

and prospective teachers with the opportunity to examine and participate in

a wide variety of strategies useful for teaching legal topics and concepts

in the classroom. The course will be flexible so as to accommodate the needs

of elementary and secondary school teachers and those experienced and

inexperienced in teaching law.

Topics will include: 1) nature and importance of teaching law

2)

law and the curriculum

3)

unit development in law

4)

basic skills of legal research

5)

strategies such as: mock trials, simulations,

case law method, problem solving, use of a-v

6)

community resource support

7)

materials review and development

There will be occasional field trips and at times registrants will work with

an actual group of school children.

Requirements - Major assignment - development of a curriculum unit on a

legal topic. Weekly readings and tasks. Although not required, students

are encouraged to also enroll in Educ. 487-4 in order to gain a greater

understanding of the law itself.

Materials - A source book of readings will be made available at minimal cost.

Eligibility - Educ. 401/2 or the equivalent of a first teaching practicum.