Education

Teaching Law and Criminal Justice Through Popular Culture
A Deep Learning Approach in the Streaming Era

Julian Hermida, DCL

Teaching Law and Criminal Justice Through Popular Culture

Published. Available now.
Pub Date: July 2021
Hardback Price: see ordering info
Hard ISBN: 9781771889414
E-Book ISBN: 9781003084204
Pages: 214 w/index
Binding Type: Hardback
Notes: 2 color illustrations

Teaching Law and Criminal Justice Through Popular Culture: A Deep Learning Approach in the Streaming Era shows how university and college professors can create an engaging environment that encourages students to take a deep approach to learning through the use of popular culture stories in law school and in criminal justice classrooms. The use of popular culture (films, TV shows, books, songs, etc.) can enhance the deep learning process by helping students develop cognitive skills, competencies, and practices that are essential for the professional practice of law and criminal justice and which are often neglected in traditional law school and criminal justice curricula.

The book covers such topics as:

  • Critical thinking skills in legal and criminal justice education
  • The role of popular culture in educating for rapid cognition
  • Factors that foster intrinsic motivation
  • Using storytelling in law and criminal justice
  • Teaching with popular culture stories
  • Popular culture and media literacy in the classroom
  • Lawyers and criminal justice agents and their dealings with the press
  • Influence of popular culture stories in the legal and criminal justice fields
  • Regulations for the use of media texts in the legal and criminal justice fields
  • How stereotyping is influenced by popular media
  • How to prepare a promising syllabus or course outline
Key features:
  • Explains an original concept on creating a deep learning environment that will enhance teaching and learning through popular culture
  • Includes engaging examples from popular culture to explain the main aspects of the deep learning environment
  • Incorporates empirical research but gives concrete and specific ideas to use in the classroom.
  • Describes in detailed form a law course taught entirely through popular culture
This unique book is the result of the author’s many years of teaching as well as of many meaningful discussions in seminars and teaching and learning workshops that he facilitated. This very easy-to-read and entertaining volume will show readers how to enhance their classes by creating a motivating and engaging environment that will foster students’ deep learning experiences.

CONTENTS:
Preface

PART 1: DEEP LEARNING
1. Introduction

2. Teaching for Deep Learning

PART 2: POPULAR CULTURE
3. Popular Culture and Rapid Cognition

4. Motivation and Student Engagement

5. Academic Disciplines and Storytelling: Teaching Law with Popular Culture Stories

6. Popular Culture and Media Literacy in the Classroom

7. Metacognition

PART 3: TEACHING THROUGH POPULAR CULTURE
8. From Vision to Analysis: Teaching a Course on Criminal Law through Popular Culture Stories

9. Conclusions

Index


About the Authors / Editors:
Julian Hermida, DCL
Associate Professor, Department of Law, Algoma University, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada

Julian Hermida, DCL, is Associate Professor at Algoma University’s Department of Law (Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada). He was also the Chair of Algoma University’s Teaching and Learning Committee for several years. Dr. Hermida has a very successful practice of more than 15 years of full-time teaching at all levels. Prior to joining Algoma, he taught at Dalhousie University (Halifax, NS, Canada), where he was recognized with an Award for Excellence for Teaching and Learning. A seasoned educational developer, Dr. Hermida has ample experience designing, implementing, and evaluating university-wide faculty development programs and initiatives. He has conducted educational development workshops and led seminars on teaching and learning in Canada, the United States, Europe, and Latin America. He has won several grants to fund his scholarship of teaching and learning research projects on deep learning. Dr. Hermida has published extensively on a wide array of both teaching and learning and legal topics. He has approximately 100 publications, including his book Facilitating Deep Learning: Pathways to Success for University and College Teachers published by Apple Academic Press. Prior to working full-time in academia, Julian Hermida practiced law in New York, Montreal, and Buenos Aires. Julian Hermida holds master’s and doctoral degrees from McGill University’s Faculty of Law, Canada. He did his postdoctoral studies at the University of Ottawa, Canada. He has also received formal education and training in higher education teaching in a unique and intensive program offered at the University of Montreal as well as in educational development programs in Canada and the United States. These include the Best Teachers Institute led by Ken Bain and Alverno College Assessment workshop, among others.




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