Social Justice Education as an Innovative Model of Learning to Embrace the Disruptive Challenges Anthon F. Susanto, Rosa Tedjabuwana, Hesti Septianita
Universitas Pasundan
Abstract
Social interaction is determined by the rapid dynamics of the changing society in which patterns of interaction are altered. The world is controlled by media corporations and digital process. Cultural context is totally changed when it enters into a chaotic or paradoxical life what is visualized as deviation of visual or as a shifting of paradigm, from scriptural culture or text centrality to visual images where computer technology and electronics take control of. While text communicates with rational consciousness, visual image communicates with life and requires things that sometimes irrational. Therefore, public satisfaction becomes an important aspect. Legal education can no longer orient merely to a classical and positivistic model with a uniformed curriculum and view only the product resulted. Legal education, in particular social justice education should be more adaptive towards disruptive challenges and be more innovative.
This writing uses philosophical and hermeneutical approaches to analyze the problems in educational process, in particular the learning process of social justice. These approaches are used to critically dissect how legal education or social justice education is able to respond the disruptive challenges and execute the more innovative process of learning.
In order to answer the innovative challenge, social justice learning in legal education should develop a competitive skill, design an out-of-box-thinking skill through a training on creativity and innovation to construct a practical and strategic process of cognitive- optimize the digitalized learning process through internet-oriented learning- visual-multitasking combined learning- develop collaborative learning- and increase the sensitivity upon injustice with ability to comprehend the user context of surroundings to develop altruistic and pro-social behavior to be able to recognize and elaborate the problems in the society.
Keywords: Legal education, Social Justice, Visual Multitasking
