%0 Journal Article
%T Critical thinking inside law schools. An outline
%A Raquel Medina Plana
%J Oˋati Socio-Legal Series
%D 2012
%I 
%X The intention of this work is to do the mapping of the many problems that critical thinking (CT) is confronted with in the inside of law schools, taking these in their institutional role as well as tangible manifestations of legal culture. I address the significance of CT, reflecting on its philosophical origins and its possibility in our time, a time that is marked by a crisis of paradigms. We will move from theory to a more pragmatic approach based on skills, only to find different sets of difficulties. Today＊s higher education institutional learning tradition is characterised by the conception and implementation of reforms which, in turn, are dominated by notions of business and commercial ethics, that are adding up to the positivist predominance that is still reigning upon legal education. Este trabajo pretende realizar una descripci車n de los numerosos problemas con que se encuentra el pensamiento cr赤tico (PC) dentro de las escuelas de derecho, entendidas desde su papel institucional pero tambi谷n como manifestaciones tangibles de la cultura legal. Se destaca la importancia del PC, reflexionando sobre sus or赤genes filos車ficos y su posibilidad en el momento actual, marcado por una crisis de paradigmas. Despu谷s de realizar un an芍lisis te車rico, se va a pasar a realizar un enfoque m芍s pragm芍tico basado en habilidades, s車lo para encontrar diferentes tipos de dificultades. La tradici車n actual de la educaci車n superior institucional se caracteriza por la concepci車n e implementaci車n de reformas que, en cambio, est芍n dominadas por nociones de 谷tica empresarial y comercial, que se suman al predominio positivista que sigue reinando en la educaci車n jur赤dica. DOWNLOAD THIS PAPER FROM SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2115429
%K Critical thinking
%K legal education
%K positivist paradigm
%K critical traditions
%K higher education reform
%K Pensamiento cr赤tico
%K ense anza del derecho
%K paradigma positivista
%K tradici車n cr赤tica
%K reforma de la educaci車n superior
%U http://ssrn.com/abstract=2115429