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

Narelle Bedford

doi:10.4324/9781003473404-13

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

Narelle Bedford

Faculty of Law

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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 language	English
Title of host publication	Legal Education Through an Indigenous Lens: Decolonising the Law School
Editors	Nicole Watson, Heather Douglas
Chapter	11
Pages	169-186
Number of pages	18
ISBN (Electronic)	97810034733404
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003473404-13
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2025

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SDG 4 Quality Education
SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities
SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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