This book addresses student passivity in teacher education. Using a developed metaphor, the author critically examines the use of authentic learning to design and implement learning experiences for preservice teachers, and reveals the opportunities and limitations of a focus on authenticity.
This book prepares teachers for outdoor education using practice-based exemplars of applied teaching theories. Focusing on authentic pedagogies, it applies to all teacher educators who seek to engage in high-impact learning for their students, and is relevant for in-service educators, preservice teachers and researchers in the field of self-study.
Interrogating Authenticity in Outdoor Education Teacher Education: Applications in Practice
Part I Contextual and Methodological Aspects of the Study.- Context of the Study.- Passivity and Authenticity in Teacher Education.- Self-Study informed by Pragmatism and Schwab's commonplaces.- Part II Applying Authenticity to Teacher Education.- Transparent Teaching.- Modelling.- Fatality Case Studies.- Context of the Camp.- Into the Outdoors.- Handing Over.- Part III Implications of the Research.- Reframing AuthenticityL Eclecticism as a Framework.- The Slipperiness of Improvement.- Epilogue.