Educating Judges-Embracing the Responsibility as Learners

Abstract

The growth and development of the concept of judicial education is such that it is becoming more readily accepted as a discipline that requires professional training and education to hold oneself as a judicial educator. This reality intersects with the fact that the judges are the focal point of judicial education and have a responsibility to engage as learners in the process. Until the academic world properly develops a curriculum which prepares individuals to become judicial educators as a distinct group of adult educators, it is going to be a requirement that the recipients of judicial education and training embrace a more active role as learners where there is a deficiency in the pedagogy or credentials of those who promote themselves as judicial educators.