Abstract

NUNES, Cely do Socorro Costa. Law education within thecontext of Portuguese university: curricular traditions under debate. Rev. Educ. Questão [online]. 2015, vol.51, n.37, pp.12-41. ISSN 1981-1802.  https://doi.org/10.5965/1981180251372016012.

The goal of the article is to understand how current curricular traditions are established and maintained in legal education established in a university institution. We search, from 20 hours of observation in the classroom, interviews with the teacher and with 11 students and documentary analysis understand how the educational community perceives teaching. Apple (1999), Goodson (2001), Fernandez and Fernandez (2005), Hobsbawm (2008), Francishetto (2010), Leite (2011) help to consider that such teaching stems from a curricular tradition favoring the maintenance of a Coimbrã style of teaching: dichotomy of theory and practice and of technical and political knowledge, based on the Positive Law. Tradition little challenged by the Portuguese-speaking legal education, contributing to its perpetuation, which makes it difficult for other curricular traditions criticism can be invented.

Keywords : Curriculum traditions; Legal education; Highereducation..

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