"LEGAL EDUCATION: FROM ADHERENCE TO THE ASSESSMENT SYSTEM TO COMPETENCE-BASED TRAINING - AN EXPERIENCE OF ITS INNOVATION POSSIBILITIES AT THE SCHOOL OF LAW UNB".
evaluation; skills; legal courses; quality.
In this thesis, we understand to what extent training by competencies can contribute to the improvement of Brazilian legal education, historically the object of criticism and generator of "crisis" in Law. The first chapter describes the National Higher Education Evaluation System (SINAES) and its three evaluation procedures, as well as their respective indicators. In the second chapter, we study the epistemological and methodological resistance that surrounds Law Undergraduate courses, and how these aspects have contributed to the qualitative advancement of Brazilian legal education. Finally, in the third chapter, we analyze, based on participant observation in the Legal Research discipline of the Faculty of Law of the University of Brasilia (UnB), to what extent competency-based training can be developed in law courses. Law graduation. For this, our research was of a bibliographic nature, with a qualitative approach, and of the descriptive, exploratory and explanatory type, making use of the dialectical method, within an interdisciplinary view of socio-legal phenomena. In the third chapter of the investigation, the participant observation technique was used, considering our experience as an assistant teacher, dialoguing with documents inherent to the discipline. We show that competency-based training enriches legal training at the undergraduate level and contributes to the improvement of legal training, with a focus on the materialization of general and specific legal competencies, currently underdeveloped. Among the skills that are fostered in students during the Legal Research course, we can mention: ability to identify, pose and solve problems, ability to critically analyze and propose solutions to legal demands and ability to reason, argue and decide legally, empirical research, ability to practice interdisciplinarity, respect for democracy and human rights and teamwork.