EDUCATION

Authenticity and Education

Authenticity and Education

Introduction of Discourse

Authentic learning is the learning about the real life events. In the authentic learning, all the important material is provided to the students in such a way that they can relate it with the real world examples. There will also be discourse analysis in the context of authenticity and education. In the discourse analysis, there will be analysis of various scholars and other literary persons on the topic of Authenticity and education. Similarly, all the activities that are performed in the process of authentic learning aim at connecting the things to the real world. Anything which does not entail such processes and methods which do not have meaning in the real life can be termed as the authentic learning. Authentic learning is very different from the conventional learning as it deals with only those aspects of learning which can bring some meaning in the life of the people. The proponents of the authentic learning believe that the learning can only be made meaningful if it is attached to the real life events. There are nine elements of the authentic learning which are very important and which are the essence of the authentic learning. The nine elements include authentic context and activity, expert performances, multiple perspectives, collaboration, reflection, articulation, coaching and scaffolding and authentic assessment. We will now discuss each one of them in some detail.

In depth Analysis of Authenticity and Education

The authentic context means that a virtual or physical environment which reflects the way in which the knowledge will be used in real life events. It is very important for the context that it must provide the purpose of the learning. Similarly, the context must also provide the motivation for learning. In the authentic context the ideas should also be explored at length. The students must be provided such an environment which should help the students to explore their ideas. If the students are not provided such a context in which they could explore their ideas at length then they will face a lot of difficulties (Herrington, & Oliver, 2000). Therefore, for the authentic context it is important that the students must be allowed to explore the ideas at length. Similarly, in the authentic context, such an environment must be created which should help the students to feel the complexity of the real life setting.

The complexity of the real life must be preserved in the authentic context. If the students do not have the feel of the complexity of the real life setting than the authentic context will not be enabling the authentic learning. Similarly, in the authentic context the real life examples must be cited because it will help the students to experience the real life problems and issues.After the authentic context another important element of authentic learning is authentic activity or authentic tasks. This element mainly emphasizes on the fact that in the authentic learning only those tasks or activities should be discussed which have relevance in the real ...