Legal education: Ideological and institutional perspectives

Abstract

Education is a means by which knowledge is transmitted and skills developed. Beneath what appears to be a relatively simple statement exist a complex matrix of pedagogic and cultural practices that inform, shape and give effect to what information is chosen and how it is understood, transmitted and received. University education in its widest sense is a whole-person process, where the focus is not so much in the teaching and learning of specific skills or training as it is on the cultivation of personal autonomy, intellectual independence and the development of life-long critical perspectives.