In Search of a Modern Confucius for Effective Teaching in Law: A Trial Project to Promote Interactive Learning in Taiwan

尋找提升法學教育效能的現代孔子：一個推動臺灣互動教學的實驗計畫

在法學教育改革的聲浪中，培養具有獨立思考與對話辯證能力的學生，一直是最重要的教學目標之一，而為達成此目標，英美蘇格拉底的對話式互動教學方法乃備受推崇。然而，西方的對話式教學方法如何能適用於東方文化薰陶的學生，並有效帶動教師與學生間的對話，甚或辯證式的討論，乃為教學方法上的重要議題。本文首先介紹孔子的互動教學方法，並提出其相對於蘇格拉底式教學法的優點。其次藉由在中正大學法學院實驗的「e化孔子戲劇教室」，分享「引導式主動學習」的創新教學方法，並且審視教學經驗與學習成果，希望藉此發現適用於本土法學院學習文化的互動教學方法。

This paper observes and reviews the progress of interactive learning in a Taiwan eConfucius Drama Classroom. Based on accumulated findings in a law classroom of blended learning, an innovative pedagogy is introduced to promote conversational teaching with passive students. The Socratic pedagogies may have led the western movements towards interactive learning. Given a different educational heritage in Taiwan, the constructivist teaching value may be realised with culturally situated methods to achieve Socratic ends. The ideas of “guided independent learning” are thus proposed with the back-up of filed findings. In the classroom of a modern Confucius, the teacher remains to be respected, yet learning-centred pedagogies are adopted to lead the students to become active and reflective learners.