The use of scenarios in legal education to develop futures thinking and sustainability competencies
The use of scenarios in legal education to develop futures thinking and sustainability competencies
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在法律教育中使用情景来培养未来思维和可持续发展能力
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10.1080/03069400.2016.1241048
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2016
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Lim M
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实现可持续发展需要民众有能力应对复杂、相互作用和不断变化的现实以及不确定的未来。然而，在法律和治理教育中，严重缺乏对发展可持续性能力的关注。法律教育在塑造可持续未来方面发挥着关键作用。长期可持续性依赖于律师、法官和政策制定者在面对未来的重大不确定性时，能够在当前做出最佳决策。本文讨论了基于问题的学习（PBL）和基于场景的教学方法的结合如何提供真实的情境化学习环境，以使法律学生能够应对全球变化的挑战。论文强调了该方法的潜力，使学生具备应对未来挑战的技能；考虑一系列的选择；并以适应性的方式管理相互作用的环境、社会和经济问题。本文描述了该方法如何在邓迪大学水法硕士（LLM）课程的背景下应用。论文最后提出了如何在其他情况下使用基于场景的方法的建议，并进一步强调了这种方法在通过法律课程发展可持续性能力方面的重要性。
Achieving sustainability requires a populace equipped to deal with complex, interacting and ever-changing realities as well as uncertain futures. There is however a significant lack of focus on developing sustainability competencies within legal and governance education. Legal education plays a key role in shaping sustainable futures. Long-term sustainability relies on lawyers, judges and policy-makers being able to make optimal decisions in the present when faced with significant uncertainty about the future. This paper discusses how the combination of problem-based learning (PBL) and scenario-based pedagogical approaches can provide an authentic contextualised learning environment to empower law students to deal with the challenges of global change. The paper highlights the potential of the approach to equip students with the skills to work through plausible future challenges; to consider a range of options; and to manage interacting environmental, social and economic issues in an adaptive fashion. The paper describes how the approach was applied in the context of the Water Law Master’s (LLM) course at the University of Dundee. The paper concludes with recommendations of how scenario-based approaches could be used in other contexts and further highlights the importance of such approaches in developing sustainability competencies through the legal curriculum.