In Search of a Modern Confucius for Effective Teaching in Law : A Trial Project to Promote Interactive Learning in Taiwan (松浦好治教授退職記念論文集)
This paper observes and reviews the progress of interactive learning in a Taiwan eConfucius Drama Classroom. Based on accumulated findings in a law classroom of blended learning, an innovative pedagogy is introduced to promote conversational teaching with passive students. The Socratic pedagogies may have led the western movements towards interactive learning. Given a different educational heritage in Taiwan, the constructivist teaching value may be realised with culturally situated methods to achieve Socratic ends. The ideas of “guided independent learning” are thus proposed with the back-up of filed findings. In the classroom of a modern Confucius, the teacher remains to be respected, yet learning-centred pedagogies are adopted to lead the students to become active and reflective learners.
Introduction to socratic method and the irreducible core of legal education
The Minnesota Law Review is publishing Professor Donald Marshalls speech in honor of his retirement from thirty-eight years of teaching at the University of Minnesota Law School. This speech was originally presented in 1994, when Professor Marshall was designated as the first and only Law Alumni Distinguished Teacher at the University of Minnesota. The speech distills Dons approach to teaching, which uniquely succeeds in engaging students in understanding and analyzing legal issues. During his remarkable career he was the best and most respected teacher in the Law School. Year after year, students voted him best teacher. He was designated teacher of the year more often than any other professor in the Law Schools history. During his career he has offered seventeen different courses in about ten thousand class sessions to more than six thousand students. When I first arrived at the Law School in 1975, I asked Don for advice as to how I should prepare to teach torts. Although our classes were generally scheduled for the same hour each day, during some school years I asked that the schedule be reorganized so that I could attend his classes and he could come to mine. I watched with admiration how every aspect of Dons teaching was the result of exhaustive preparation, careful design, and inspired performance. He planned every question and every aspect of the class, but he was always ready to modify that plan to meet the needs of his students. He principally used what he called the Socratic dialogue, but he also engaged students in role-playing exercises and, on rare occasions, brought
The development of a liquid antihistaminic preparation with sustained release properties.
The relative capacity of several cation exchange resins to adsorb methapyrilene has been determined by an in vitro method. It was demonstrated that methapyrilene adsorbed on sulfonic acid cation exchange resin possessed pharmacological activity approximating that of a solution of methapyrilene hydrochloride as measured by the protection against histamine-induced asthma in the intact guinea pig. It is suggested that the use of ion exchange resins as carriers of drugs in liquid dosage forms may be useful in sustained release preparations.