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Innovative Pedagogical Approaches in Judicial Education: The Case of a Pioneer Training Programme for Magistrates in Brazil This article presents and discusses a pioneering experiment of judicial education in Brazil. The groundbreaking course herein described was based on experiential learning and involved creating opportunities for the new judges to have direct interaction with the socially challenged communities likely to be affected by their work on the bench. The pedagogical goal was to enhance judges' awareness of the manifold problematic effects that come from the highly homogeneous, elite social background of the judicial corpus in Brazil. The findings suggest a tension between the judicial education proposal discussed in this article and the deeply rooted perspectives on the ethos of judges and the meaning of their education. This tension underscores the urgency of intensifying efforts to enhance the capacity of Brazilian judicial education to help judges broaden their sensitivity to social diversity and thus become better equipped to deliver socially and legally high-quality decisions. The theoretical framework for the present study on the topic of judicial education is based on Alves, 'Judicial Schools'. Journal of the National School of Magistracy , Boigeol 'The Training of Magistrates: From Practical Learning to Professional Schooling', Ethics and Political Philosophy Magazine , Fontainha and Barros, 'The Brazilian public tender and the selection process ideology'. Legal Review of the Presidency , Cowdrey, 'Teaching New Judges What It Means to "Be" a Judge', International Organization for Judicial Training , and the works of Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed , Holston, Insurgent Citizenship: Disjunctions of Democracy and Modernity in Brazil , and Koppensteiner, Transrational Methods of Peace Research: The Researcher as (Re)source are used as the basis for the topics of education and experiential learning. The case study adopts an ethnographic approach based on Clifford, 'Power in Dialogue in Ethnography', since one of the co-authors of this article took part in the experiment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
