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Call to publish scientific articles that will be received between June 20 and November 20, 2019, referring to:

University Pedagogy: With topics such as public policies in higher education, legislative system and reforms, academic programs, comparative policies, massification processes, quality assurance, legal professions, and others in higher education as a general field, referring to the Chilean and international context .

Didactics of Law: With topics whose centrality is related to processes of innovation, learning, curriculum, innovations, teaching experiences, students and teachers characterization , among others in legal education in the Chilean and international context.

Ethical and citation standards (Chicago-deusto) must be taken care of, in addition to the originality of the research or innovation.

Teaching labor procedural law using an experiential approach: Reflections from a classroom in Bogotá

Authors

Abstract

During the first semester of 2023, I was assigned the Labor Procedural Law course at the Universidad de los Andes (Colombia) and I proposed to redesign the course with experiential learning as the central axis of the course. It was the first time I taught a course with this pedagogical approach. In this article I analyze my own experience designing and teaching this optional course, and I present the results of the qualitative and quantitative evaluation that the students gave to my performance. I present the challenges that its implementation may have (increased workload for students and teacher, need for highly scheduled feedback, need for group work time with increasingly shorter class sessions) as well as its advantages (more personal interaction with students, teamwork under supervision, problem solving, meaningful learning). I conclude by reflecting on what adjustments I should make to the course the next time I teach it.

Keywords:

Self-study of teaching, positionality, labor procedural law, experiential learning, legal education, legal pedagogy.

Author Biography

Andrés Rodríguez Morales, Universidad de los Andes

Andrés Rodríguez Morales is a lawyer from the Universidad del Rosario, Colombia, and holds a Master's degree in Law from the Universidad de los Andes, Colombia. He is currently a PhD candidate in Law at the same institution. He is an active member of the research group Law and Gender and supervises the Research Seedbed Labor and Law at the Universidad de los Andes. His email address is a.rodriguezm10@uniandes.edu.co. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1845-3062