Argentinean Legal Education: Pedagogic Knowledge and Identity

SILVINA PEZZETTA

Honolulu

Conferencia; Law and Society International Conference; 2012

Law and Society Association

This work is divided into two sections. In the first one I will describe the Argentinean university system and some of its unique features, such us democratic elections of its authorities. Secondly I depict the research system since its short life and weaknesses determine the possibilities of our work. Finally, this first section is devoted to the pervasive model of legal research and its relations with the pitfalls of our university and research system. In the second part I will show some of the results of the research I conducted on how law is taught in the Law School of the National University of Rosario (U.N.R.). To conclude, I will concentrate the attention on some of the aspects of the research with special attention to the curriculum and pedagogy analysis following the concepts of Basil Bernstein?s sociological theory of education.