Towards a management model for paralegal education programs: A case analysis of the Paralegal Training Services Center

• Main Author: Regis, Melanio Montederamos
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 1995
• Subjects: Educational planning; Non-formal education; Educational evaluation; Legal aid; Non-governmental organizations; Educational Leadership; Legal Education
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_doctoral/740
• Institution: De La Salle University

This research project evolves a management model for paralegal education, a non-formal education (NFE) program implemented by non-governmental organizations (NGOs).Such management model was guided by the developmental legal aid philosophy of the late Senator Jose W. Diokno. The project adapted Sundjaja's (1990) methodology of comparative analysis and synthesis in developing a model for successful business entrepreneurs.The data came from three project papers, namely: the first on the state of practice of the management of paralegal education programs by ten selected NGOs, the second on the management practice of the Paralegal Training Services Center (PTSC), an NGO that implemented the paralegal program, and the third on the evaluation of the paralegal education program of PTSC.The first two project papers described how the implementing NGOs directed and controlled its human and material resources in order to achieve the objectives of the paralegal program. The project papers employed the systems model of Ballantine (1983), and the guidelines for the analysis of NFE programs by Barsaga and de Jesus (1991). The third project paper adopted the context, input, process and product (CIPP) evaluation devised by Stufflebeam (1971) for the public school system of the United States. The project concluded that:1. There was a need for the implementation of the paralegal education program as a measure to restore social equilibrium 2. There is a continued patronage of the program by the poor basic sectors 3. The program had positive effects toward people empowerment and social change 4. The people themselves were the prime movers in the process of empowerment and social change and,5. The human and material resources of the developmental or alternative legal service NGOs fitted appropriately to the paralegal education strategy.