WHY A GUIDE TO DESIGNING MATERIALS?

Recent works such as Ramsden’s Learning to Teach in Higher Education and Le Brun and Johnstone’s The Quiet Revolution: Improving Student Learning in Law provide thorough introductions to university teaching in general and the teaching of law in particular. These two works are guides to current issues and recent research into student learning and its implications for teaching. Joughin and Gardiner’s A Framework for Teaching and Learning Law provides a detailed mapping of the key elements of legal education, and while it touches on the use of materials, it does so in the context of a much broader framework of issues, concepts, and processes. Johnstone’s Printed Teaching Materials: A New Approach for Law Teachers contains a detailed discussion of the principal concepts and issues involved in the use of materials in legal education and focuses on providing law teachers with a ‘way of thinking’ about the development and use of such materials.