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Abstract
Although teaching is an important part of the professional identities of academic lawyers, ‘teacher training’ is a relatively recent phenomenon in higher education. Concern about the lack of pedagogical knowledge found among legal academics expressed by William Twining in the 1970s still resonates today. In particular, there are concerns about training for academic lawyers which merely focuses on generic knowledge and skills, and is not firmly embedded within the discipline.
Acknowledgements
The author wishes to thank Paul Yates (Keele) for his assistance with the early stages of research for this article, and Tony Bradney (Keele), Jessica Guth (Bradford) and William Twining for their comments on earlier drafts. Any errors remain the responsibility of the author.
Notes
For examples of higher education institutions requiring new entrants to undertake a postgraduate certificate in teaching in higher education, see: http://www.brookes.ac.uk/services/ocsd/3_courses/learning_teaching/cthe.html, http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/pgche/ - PGCHE Documents - PGCHE-APL-APPEL Policy, http://www.ucl.ac.uk/calt/certs/clthe.html.