Open AccessLOOKING TO LITERATURE FOR TRANSFORMATION
Author(s) -
Kayla Thomas
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
pretoria student law review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1998-0280
DOI - 10.29053/pslr.v13i.1863
Subject(s) - syllabus , oppression , transformative learning , patriarchy , sociology , humanism , dominance (genetics) , democracy , legal education , value (mathematics) , pedagogy , law , political science , gender studies , biochemistry , chemistry , machine learning , politics , computer science , gene
The English literature that is being taught to law students plays a role in shaping critical and ethically conscious lawyers, as well as in contributing to a transformative approach to legal education in post1994 South Africa by engaging with different perspectives. Value lies in engaging specifically with previously devalued perspectives in a substantive way.5 While limited progress has been made to include diverse and previously undervalued perspectives, a more inclusive English syllabus will produce more ethically conscious and humanistic law students and lawyers.6 Incorporating more literature of marginalised groups into the law syllabus in a non-hierarchical way will challenge and perhaps begin to dismantle the pre-democratic dominance of structural and psychological oppression, systems of patriarchy, and the black inferiority complex.