Advocacy 20 years on from Hampel: is it time we revisited the postgraduate teaching of advocacy?

This paper seeks to discuss the teaching of advocacy as a discipline with specific reference to the way in which advocacy is taught on the Bar Professional Training Course in England and Wales. The Advocacy Training Council favours the Hampel Method of teaching advocacy first developed more than 20 years ago in Australia. The paper seeks to review the use of the Hampel Method by offering a critique of behaviourist learning theory from a constructivist standpoint and putting forward alternative teaching techniques which are in harmony with the principles of constructivism, experiential learning and productive failure. We conclude that the teaching of advocacy can be improved and that greater scholarship is needed in this important area to ensure students are taught using the best techniques.     

Is the SEC a learning regulator? Lessons from proxy access

Analysis of the US Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) treatment of the concept of ownership in the federal proxy rules, between 1934 and 2010, suggests SEC systems and procedures may not employ optimal organizational learning. Addressing this, I develop the Learning Regulator Framework, a normative model facilitating organizational learning and allowing regulatory agencies to maintain awareness of, and adaptation to, socio‐economic realities in regulated environments, thereby promoting reflective, responsive, relevant, and efficient regulatory frameworks. The relevance of the model to other institutional settings is also considered.     

Reflections on Critical Thinking: Lessons from a Quasi-Experimental Study

In a pre/post quasi-experimental study assessing the impact of a specific curriculum on critical thinking, the authors employed a critical thinking curriculum in two sections of a U.S. foreign policy class. The authors found that the interactive and scaffolded critical thinking curriculum yielded statistically significant critical thinking increases for students scoring below average on the pretest. Within a discussion of the overall need for strengthening critical thinking in higher education, the authors demonstrate that the study’s findings support the developmental process of acquiring critical thinking, and illustrate that early jumps in critical thinking can be achieved within one semester. Additionally, the results point to the need for more long-term approaches to assess larger increases for those scoring above average.     

胜利油田国际化人才培训项目“混合式学习”探讨

企业唯一持久的竞争优势,就是具备比竞争对手学习得更快的能力。随着胜利油田"走出去"战略目标的实现,海外市场业务快速发展,对复合型人才的需求加大,如何有效和持续培养国际化人才成为当务之急。高培党校转变培训方式,联系实际创新路,加强培训求实效,将传统培训方法与现代远程学习相结合,探索国际化人才拉力赛等培训模式,找到了一条国际化人才"混合式学习"培训的有效途径,实现了"工作学习化,学习工作化"和培训从量变到质变的飞跃。     

论法语阅读课程与自主阅读模式的构建

法语阅读能力是法语专业教学的重要内容之一,学生的法语阅读水平是检验法语专业教学质量的重要方面,因此法语阅读课程的设置和组织尤为重要。借助法语阅读课程的平台,教师应充当组织者与管理者,突破传统阅读教学的限制,引导学生规划、组织阅读活动,构建自主阅读模式。借助自主阅读模式,充分了解阅读过程的本质,激发学生的阅读积极性,培养学生的阅读策略,提高学生自主阅读能力。     

法学人才培养服务学习模式探索与实践

融服务与学习为一体的服务学习是美国高校的特色教育行为，并对其他国家高等教育产生重要影响。应用型法学人才的培养呼吁教学模式的改革，服务学习作为一种有效的实践教学方式，对于培养应用型法学人才具有积极意义。在法学人才培养中采用服务学习，能有效完成实践教学目的，实现学生、学校、社区、政府四方共赢。宁波大学科学技术学院对法学人才培养服务学习模式进行了有益的探索与实践。     

陕甘宁边区西北党校干部教育特点述论

西北党校(原名"边区党校")是陕甘宁边区党委开办的一所以培训地方性干部为主的干部教育机构,办学规模大、持续时间长,是延安时期中共地方干部教育机构的代表之一。在中共中央与边区党组织的指导下,西北党校在办学过程中逐渐认识到学员、教员与教材等方面的特殊性,坚持课程同学员相结合、教员同学员相结合,探索出一条"以地方性的问题知识"为教学重点的办学道路,创造性地贯彻了中共中央制定的所学与所用一致、理论联系实际的指示,把西北党校建设成为一个"有大局面"的正规学校。     

以学生为主体的英语教学新模式探析

新的课程标准提出学生是教学的主体,教师是课堂教学活动的策划者、组织者和指导者,因此,在教学中,教师需要抓住教材中所蕴含的创造性因素,激发学生的学习兴趣,创设既富有变化又能激发新奇感的学习情境,充分利用学生的好奇心,引导他们去研究问题,积极构建以学习者为中心的,以学生自主活动为基础的新型教学模式,推进教学活动由教向学的转变。     

公安院校大学生学习投入现状研究

为考察公安院校大学生的学习投入水平,对271名大学生进行了问卷调查。结果表明,公安院校大学生的学习投入处于中等偏上的水平,不同性别学生学习投入的差异不显著,不同籍贯学生学习投入的差异不显著,不同家庭经济状况学生学习投入的差异不显著,刑侦类专业的学生在学习活力、学习奉献和学习投入总分上得分显著高于刑技类专业的学生,学业自我评价良好的学生在学习投入及其所有附属维度上得分显著高于学业自我评价较差的学生,理想型入学动机的学生在学习投入及其所有维度的得分均显著高于就业型入学动机的学生。     

Terrorist learning in context – the case of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb

ABSTRACT

It is astonishing how many researchers adopt a counterterrorism agenda and suggest researching terrorist learning in order to shape security countermeasures. Posing different questions would lead to different answers. One such question would be, “What makes terrorist learning different?” Terrorist groups operate clandestinely, which means the environment in which they learn is different. This paper investigates the context in which Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) has learned. Thus, a qualitative case study analysis of the influence of meso- and macro-level factors on AQIM’s tactical and strategic patterns between 1999 and 2013 will shed light on terrorist learning. Meso-level influences are conceptualised as cooperation and ultimate merging with Al Qaeda, and macro-level influences as government action. The result is puzzling: AQIM has learned tactically from Al Qaeda and strategically from counterterrorism. This is puzzling because scholars commonly question whether it is possible to learn under pressure. Nevertheless, AQIM’s learning has been more profound when faced with pressure than when cooperating voluntarily. The sustainable answer to the question of the political implication thereof is not how to boost counterterrorism measures but how to redefine them. If what is different about terrorist learning is above all the context, we need to question the context.