Sentences with phrase «development as an academic discipline»

The purpose of this article is to examine the changing focus of legal education over the years from its development as an academic discipline to the emergence of clinical internships and the call for law schools to deliver a mixture of both within the contemporary law degree.

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Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.

Such developments within academic disciplines are highly significant in a society in which the social sciences are viewed as instruments for the clarification, support and advancement of the government's philosophy and policies.

The last few years have witnessed the development of financial mathematics as a new and rapidly growing academic discipline.

Dr. Lombardi's strengths as principal at Garza ECHS include the development of a positive, collaborative school culture focused on college success, the academic empowerment of students, the implementation of a common instructional framework, and the enactment of systems - thinking for discipline, grading, scheduling and interventions.

Access meaningful learning experiences (current theory, research, and developments in relevant academic disciplines, professional development opportunities, and ideas from colleagues and supervisors) and exercises judgment in accepting findings as valid for application in classroom practice and teacher improvement.

However, this very development has allowed academic departments to treat law more as an intellectual discipline than a subject of practical application.