Presentation given to the Onati Workshop on 'One World, Different Cultures, Clashing Values: Legal Education in a Global Context', Onati, Spain. Hosted by the International Institute for the Sociology of Law, April 2009. Paper available.

1. ‘ Associated life’: social software, professional relationships and democratic professionalism Professor Paul Maharg Glasgow Graduate School of Law

3. a rgument in summary …

17. professionalism Outcome Positive indicator Negative indicator 5. Personal integrity and civility towards colleagues, clients and the courts Is honest with all others on the course; relates to colleagues on the programme with civility; treats tutors, administrative staff and others with respect. Exhibits traits of arrogance, intemperate behaviour, mismanagement of own affairs; lies to colleagues or programme personnel; plagiarises work; adopts the work of others as own work; is abusive or contemptuous towards colleagues or programme personnel.

19. p rofessional relationships Outcome Positive indicator Negative indicator Listen, give and receive feedback and respond perceptively to others Looks at speaker; neither asks questions nor makes comments until speaker has finished; can summarise accurately what the speaker has said without embellishment or omission. Can comment positively and with perception on the performance of others in the group; can accept and act upon feedback from others to improve professional practice Interrupts other speaker; talks over speaker; easily distracted by own thoughts while other is speaking; cannot summarise well what another speaker has said; gives poor or disparaging feedback to peers; comments on person, not task; does not accept feedback from others, or resents being the focus of feedback; sees no relation between feedback and improvement of professional practice

23. large-scale implementation in disciplines Discipline Degree programme Institution Architecture BSc (Hons) / March, year 3 Strathclyde U. (1) Management Science BA (Hons), year 1 Strathclyde U. (1) Social Work MA (Hons), year 2/3 Strathclyde U. (1) Law LLB, year 1 Glamorgan U. (1) Law LLB, year 2/3 Stirling U. (2) Law LLB, year 3 Warwick U. (1) Law LLB, year 3 West of England U. (1) Law Diploma in Legal Practice, p/g Strathclyde U. (6)

24. correspondence file

25. Ardcalloch directory

26. map of Ardcalloch

35. PI project: tempo & complexity

36. PI project: tempo & complexity

45. Standard classroom c.1908. Would you like to learn about measurement and volume this way? Thanks to Mike Sharples, http://tinyurl.com/6bzdgx

46. … o r this way? (Dewey’s Laboratory School, U. of Chicago, 1901), http://tinyurl.com/6onvjp

47. Would you like to learn about history and town planning this way?

48. … o r by building a table-top town for a social life history project? (Dewey’s Lab School, http://tinyurl.com/59c93q )

50. John Dewey E.L. Thorndike 1. Philosopher & educationalist Educational psychologist 2. Theoretician and practical implementer Theoretician & experimentalist 3. Interested in the arc between experience & the world Explored the dyadic relationship between mind & the world 4. Pragmatist approach to learning: prior experience, ways of contextual knowing Adopted as precursor of a behaviourist approach to learning: assessment-led; laws of effect, recency, repetition 5. Emphasised learning ecologies Emphasised teaching strategies 6. Followed by: Bruner, Kilpatrick, standards movement, Constructivist tradition Followed by: Watson, Skinner, Gagné, outcomes movement,

55. Transforming Legal Education: four key themes