The new directions of higher legal education for its sustainable and fraternal effectiveness

Abstract

The educational process can be understood as a political task. In Brazil, this role is even more evident, since higher education is still restricted and unequal. The intention to elaborate this research arose after the perception that profound changes are being implemented in higher legal education, leveraged by new technologies and globalization. The role of the law graduate is changing in a multifaceted society, which brings positive and negative consequences to teaching-learning. The traditional perspective of education, considering the student as a clean slate in view of the superior hierarchical position of the teacher, is no longer effective for the teaching-learning of the students, since the world needs more engaged, creative, and autonomous professionals. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to describe the role of the professor in the implementation of a sustainable and fraternal higher legal education focused on research, encouraging student protagonism and humanistic development in higher legal education. At the end, it will be possible to conclude that contemporary professors should be humanistic and fraternal professionals, placing themselves on the educational level alongside the student as an interlocutor/collaborator in the teaching-learning process based on interdisciplinarity. Furthermore, research and development of a humanistic and environmental education should be encouraged. The research follows a bibliographical line of a descriptive-exploratory nature, by the deductive method with a qualitative approach.