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This is a draft of the presentation that will be given at the HEA Social Sciences annual conference - Teaching forward: the future of the Social Sciences. For further details of the conference: http://bit.ly/1cRDx0p Bookings open until 14 May 2014 http://bit.ly/1hzCMLR or [email protected] ABSTRACT Based on an HEA funded pilot study, this presentation focuses on engaging Law Students in the development and preparation of their own Personal Development Plans. The project considers how students see their learning and development needs and the current barriers to developing PDPs. The focus on PDP emphasises its importance as the foundation for integrating into current legal education an understanding of legal professionalism. By enabling students to take responsibility and to actively develop their PDP it is argued that students will come to embody wider values of legal professionalism, notably the promotion of justice.
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Making “Connections”: Embedding Personal and Professional
Development PlansDr Richard W Whitecross
Edinburgh Napier University
Only Connect
BackgroundLegal Education and Training Review 2013
HEA Law Strategic Project
Personal experience
Creating Professional OpportunitiesTransferable skills
Being “professional”
Learning to connect
The Challenge – engaging with “others”
Transferable SkillsIdentifying opportunities to:
Develop range of skills
Capture skills in e.portfolio
ProfessionalismWhat does this mean?
How is it understood?
Why is it important?
Engaging studentsLaw Student Mentoring
Employer Mentoring
Work with CAB
Networking
Working with the student Law Society
Learning to ConnectWhat are the inhibitors?
How can we support students?
Valuing social skills
“Official” versus peer approach
A student’s perspectiveKarolina Sieler
Research Student studying towards her PhD
Part-Time Tutor
Moving ForwardPiloting of Law Mentoring
Piloting embedding e.portfolio across LLB Programme.
Evaluation
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