Teaching Strategies of Labor Law: Harmonized Theory and Practice in Uzbek Classroom

Workshop Presentation
Dilfuza Abdullaeva,  Rasulbek Khalbaev  

To foster understanding of the professionalism of specialists in jurisprudence, the government of Uzbekistan has launched the innovative trend for teaching legal courses in higher education. Tashkent State University of Law (TSUL) is entrusted to be the leading tertiary establishment for this journey. With more than fifteen years of working experience in the Human Resources department of TSUL, the author has been implementing her work in the classroom. She has developed a labor law syllabus and resources as video lessons, quizzes, and transcripts for dynamic educational content. The workshop objective is to demonstrate teaching strategies of essential applications and enforcement aspects of labor law. In the session, the facilitator uses cases and news analysis through which the trainees are asked to connect legal implications, provisions, and the news for discussions. She also utilizes storytelling as a strategy to make conference participants understand the flow of provisions with specific sections. In the follow-up, a five-minute video with a practicum element whereby Uzbek students carry out experience as workers in a variety of employment areas for short periods of time and then analyse the legal basis/protection of their colleagues in the workplace is shared.