ASSURING QUALITY IN LEGAL EDUCATION THROUGH ACTION RESEARCH
Keywords:
Action Research, Quality Assurance, reflective, collaboration, cyclicAbstract
With the massive expansion of legal education and training, quality remains key to its sustainability. Quality is a corporate issue that determines the direction an institution takes. It is an outcome of many factors. Quality assurance has become a household vocabulary in management of legal education as it relates to practice with the liberalization of legal education. Quality of services is an issue of discussion with stakeholders shopping for the best institution in terms of offering quality legal education that can prepare the learners for the competitive labour market. It is therefore the responsibility of the legal education and training institutions to ensure they satisfy their clients by offering high quality services. Through action research, legal education practitioners are engaged in examining and reflecting on how situations can be improved. This paper looks at ways of assuring quality in higher learning institution in general and legal education and training institutions in particular through action research. Methodologies of action research and how these methodologies are applied in quality assurance are discussed.
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