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Mediation education reflecting mediation practice:
a synthesis of learning
About the session As the recipient of a University of Western Australia Teaching Fellowship Award, Jill attended the recent Mediation Pedagogy Conference held at the Harvard Law School and conducted empirical research into ‘Teaching mediation competencies: best practice to achieve deep learning’.
Jill will engage attendees in a small experiential exercise aimed at warming participants up to learning, and will facilitate discussion about facilitative and directive mediation and teaching practices. |
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The Harvard Conference canvassed teaching methods such as the use of videos, role-play and reflective journals and Jill’s research focussed on best practice in experiential learning, including warming students up to simulations. A synthesis of learning from these two sources suggests that mediation education might closely reflect mediation practice: namely, in teaching as in practice, there are those that facilitate learning through modelling and participatory practices, and there are those that promote learning through telling. 
The presentation will discuss whether how we are taught mediation reflects how we practice it. Further, it will discuss how warming students up to learning and the use of reflection are important teaching and learning methods. Jill Howieson
Jill Howieson is currently the Associate Dean (Students) at the University of Western Australia’s School of Law and is the unit co-ordinator and lecturer in Negotiation and Mediation, and Alternative Dispute Resolution at UWA. She is the UWA representative on WADRA and a member of the WA executive of LEADR.
Jill holds degrees in English, Psychology (Hons) and an LLB (Hons) and has just completed a PhD in Law at UWA, researching in the area of family law dispute resolution: family lawyers and their clients. Jill’s research areas include procedural justice, alternative dispute resolution and legal education and Jill works from an inter-disciplinary socio-legal perspective and conducts empirical research.
Jill is an accredited mediator and mediates at the Citizen Advice Bureau mostly in the area of family, commercial and neighbourhood disputes. Before entering academia, Jill practised as a solicitor in the area of dispute resolution at Mallesons Stephen Jacques and smaller dispute resolution firms and she has a broad range of experience in ADR processes.
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