BASIC ELEMENTS FOR GOOD LEGAL TEACHING

Abstract

The main objective of this research work is to problematize about what we consider to be the basic elements for a systematized teaching exercise. At first we will analyze the importance and limits of considering ludic aspects in the classroom; we believe that one of the most important elements for good teaching is to encourage motivation and interest in students; another inescapable factor is to consider the inclusion of other disciplines and issues linked to political problems such as economic, social, philosophical, historical, cultural, among others, in order to fully understand the vicissitudes that contemporary law faces; assertive communication in which it is assumed that there will be a context of active listening by all those involved within the framework of correct, direct and respectful language; the responsibility that the teacher has to have a vision that is supported by different theoretical perspectives and not just a few accounts, that is, the ideological transparency of the academic person; the need to include flexibility in the evaluation, the ethical and political commitment of teaching to forge a path towards emancipation and, of course, the importance of consistency, that is, that the teacher has a parallelism between what he says and what it does.

keywords: legal teaching; assertive communication; ideological transparency; emancipation; ethical commitment; political problems; economic and social problems; philosophical problems; cultural and historical issues