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Benefits of authentic education

conference contribution
posted on 2018-11-01, 00:00 authored by Chandana WatagodakumburaChandana Watagodakumbura
Authentic education provides a unique learning experience to individual learners, specifically by addressing their psychological and neurological needs; assessment of learners are done through generic attributes that have more validity and relates to intrinsic learner characteristics, lasting throughout the life span. Authentic education looks at the general term education more broadly and deeply, and from multiple perspectives. As the individual learners are identified uniquely through authentic education, it embraces diversity within the human species more broadly and meaningfully. Learners are encouraged to pursue higher-order learning sending them through a complete learning cycle; this engages learners deeply to the task and provides a lasting experience, enabling individuals to reach their full potential. Authentic education aims at providing personal development for individuals broadly, not merely a career development, while still paving a better way to map individual preferences to more suitable career paths. Through authentic education, we get to value human resources much more than related economic aspects, making a significant difference to our current approaches and focus; it has the promise to effect a significant positive social change towards a sustainable development.

History

Editor

Clute R

Start Page

199

End Page

203

Number of Pages

5

Start Date

2013-01-03

Finish Date

2013-01-05

Location

Maui Hawaii, USA

Publisher

The Clute Institute

Place of Publication

Littleton, Colorado, USA

Peer Reviewed

  • Yes

Open Access

  • No

External Author Affiliations

RMIT University

Era Eligible

  • Yes

Name of Conference

The Clute Institute International Academic Conferences