What is authentic about ‘authentic learning’?
J. Patrick Williams
Nanyang Technological University
J. Patrick Williams
Nanyang Technological University
J. Patrick Williams is associate professor of sociology at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is co-editor, with Phillip Vannini, of Authenticity in Culture, Self and Society (Routledge, 2009) and, with Kaylan C. Schwarz, of Studies on the Social Construction of Identity and Authenticity (Routledge, 2021).
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The catch-all term ‘authentic’ can distinguish certain teaching, practical and assessment tasks as being more valuable than others, but educators need to ask what assumptions underpin the label, writes J. Patrick Williams