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Authentic Education: More Recent Times
Authentic pedagogy movements emerged in the 20th century, in part as a reaction to the culture of order and control characteristic of didactic education. The major principles of authentic education are that learners should take a more active part in their learning, and that this learning should be closely and practically connected to their life experiences. Authentic education is more child-centred, focusing on internalized understanding rather than formal repetition of the ‘right’ answers. But does it necessarily have the effect of changing a child’s life chances? Or is it at times overly ‘practical’, accepting that unequal life chances are inevitable? Authentic education’s critics argue that, all too often, it does not fulfil the promise of education.
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Supporting Material
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau on Emile’s Education
- Maria Montessori on ‘Free, Natural’ Education
- John Dewey on Progressive Education
- Early Progressive Education
- A.S. Neill’s Summerhill
- Rabindranath Tagore’s School at Shantiniketan
- Kohn on Progressive Education
- A Critique of Progressive Education
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Make an Update: Describe and analyze the features of an example of authentic pedagogy today.
Authentic pedagogy is more student-centered, focusing on internalizing understanding. students play an more active role in their learning process，this learning is closely and practically connected to their life experiences
It is still a classroom in those old senses but a much more fluid space; it’s a big shift where the focus is more on group work,group interaction,discussing what‘s happening，these are by nature noisy classrooms. Authentic tasks the world abroad,students may research, look things up, go to the library, use an encyclopedia, do experiments,get involved in a field trip and be given problems to solve.
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Authentic pedagogy has proven to be a game changer in how we see and enact child education. Surprisingly the way we train adults and professionals at work have not changed that much yet. We see a lot of adult training using didactic pedagogy with a lot of top-down knowledge, slides, tests and certifications.
Hopefully a few initiatives came to bring authentic education on this field with Training from the back of the room (https://bowperson.com/ ) or funny learning (https://www.funny-learning.com/ )
The Training From the Back of the Room approach detailed by Sharon L Bowman in her book, uses 4 steps (4 Cs) in short activities to engage learners.
The 4 Cs are
Connection : to connect student together and to the subjects
Concept : to let students apprehend theoretical concepts
Concrete practice : to let student manipulate themselves the concepts into something meaningful and concrete
Conclusion : to let students reflect and integrate what the new knowledge
The funny learning approach come from the observation that people learn differently and do not have the same needs and preferences. It use a color coding system with 4 colors based on the DISC assessment of William Moulton Marston (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DISC_assessment )
The 4 colors representing the four behavior types are :
Red : Dominance
Yellow : Inducement
Green : Submission
Blue : Compliance
The approach recognize that their is not a one-size fit all practice and recommend to alternate small activities dedicated for the different kind of behaviors.
These two approaches embrace the same element as authentic pedagogy with :
Architectonic : Open space areas are privileged for learning using small groups of learners allowed and encouraged to discuss together for group work.
Discursive : The teacher is not at a central place to give content but let his place to group conversation (especially on Training from the back of the Room that emphasis the absence of a know-it-all teacher)
Intersubjective : In both approaches we have differents activities and concrete practices that actively engaged students and make them participate in want they want to do and not necessarily the same thing (although is often for a group goal)
Socio-cultural : Those training methods recognize that peoples do not have the same needs or ways of learning and propose different adapted short activities suited to different types.
Proprietary : As the group work, knowledge exchanges and discoveries are highlighted the students are encouraged to share and discuss work and not selfishly conserve it. However the student may feel proprietary for the lesson learnt and the usage they will personally do from this learning in their context, particularly on the conclusion steps in Training from the back of the room.
Epistemological : The core concepts on these training approaches is not to feed learners but to let themselves experiences and manipulates concepts make it their own
Pedagogical : All is done to actively engage students in their learning by motivating them in a set of activities.
Moral : Finally those approaches commit to change the traditional approach of adult learning by stocking up knowledge and certification to an active consciousness of learners. The learners are invited to be change agents and continuous learners with a curious and growing mindset connected to others.
At my level I try to expand these new ways of teaching for adults and hope it will become a standard as recognized as authentic pedagogy for childs.
Authentic learning is plays important role in individual's learning. The primary goal of education is to prepare the student into the real world. It is learning by doing, with hands on experiences.
Authentic learning is plays important role in individual's learning. The primary goal of education is to prepare the student into the real world. It is learning by doing, with hands on experiences.
Authentic Pedagogy is teaching children from what is really happening in the real world. from this, we can be able to teach and come up with a very good strategy that everyone can relate to. It is said that experience is the best teacher.
Authentic Pedagogy is teaching children from what is really happening in the real world. from this, we can be able to teach and come up with a very good strategy that everyone can relate to. It is said that experience is the best teacher.
This was a great thoughts to ponder!