Legal Education and First Nations teaching and Learning Methodologies: Storytelling/Yarning, Deep Listening and Lived Experience

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Abstract

First Nations teaching and learning methodologies have an important role to perform in the decolonisation of legal education, because it is not just the law that is taught but the way that it is taught that must be changed. This chapter discusses the First Nations methodologies of storytelling and yarning, deep listening and lived experience and emphasises the potential for their inclusion in legal pedagogy and curriculum materials. The chapter then turns to reforms in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Canada and South Africa to support a call for urgent action to decolonise Australian legal education.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLegal Education Through an Indigenous Lens: Decolonising the Law School
EditorsNicole Watson, Heather Douglas
Chapter11
Pages169-186
Number of pages18
ISBN (Electronic)97810034733404
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Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2025

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