• myGriffith
    • Staff portal
    • Contact Us⌄
      • Future student enquiries 1800 677 728
      • Current student enquiries 1800 154 055
      • International enquiries +61 7 3735 6425
      • General enquiries 07 3735 7111
      • Online enquiries
      • Staff phonebook
    View Item 
    •   Home
    • Griffith Research Online
    • Book chapters
    • View Item
    • Home
    • Griffith Research Online
    • Book chapters
    • View Item
    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

    Browse

  • All of Griffith Research Online
    • Communities & Collections
    • Authors
    • By Issue Date
    • Titles
  • This Collection
    • Authors
    • By Issue Date
    • Titles
  • Statistics

  • Most Popular Items
  • Statistics by Country
  • Most Popular Authors
  • Support

  • Contact us
  • FAQs
  • Admin login

  • Login
  • Authenticity in learning activities and settings

    Author(s)
    Billett, Stephen
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Billett, Stephen R.
    Year published
    2012
    Metadata
    Show full item record
    Abstract
    The concept of authenticity in learning activities and settings refers to those activities that comprise the purposeful exercise of culturally derived practices in settings where they are ordinarily enacted. Most often, and contemporarily almost always, the term authentic activities refer to paid work (i.e., occupational) activities; and authentic settings refers to the workplaces in which those activities are enacted, and which act as sites for engaging in and learning the knowledge required for a specific occupational practice. However, students' classroom experiences are also authentic in terms of the cultural practice ...
    View more >
    The concept of authenticity in learning activities and settings refers to those activities that comprise the purposeful exercise of culturally derived practices in settings where they are ordinarily enacted. Most often, and contemporarily almost always, the term authentic activities refer to paid work (i.e., occupational) activities; and authentic settings refers to the workplaces in which those activities are enacted, and which act as sites for engaging in and learning the knowledge required for a specific occupational practice. However, students' classroom experiences are also authentic in terms of the cultural practice of educating through school activities and school settings.
    View less >
    Book Title
    Encyclopaedia of the Sciences of Learning.
    Volume
    1
    Publisher URI
    https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9781441914279#otherversion=9781441955036
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1428-6_33
    Subject
    Technical, Further and Workplace Education
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/50183
    Collection
    • Book chapters

    Footer

    Disclaimer

    • Privacy policy
    • Copyright matters
    • CRICOS Provider - 00233E

    Tagline

    • Gold Coast
    • Logan
    • Brisbane - Queensland, Australia
    First Peoples of Australia
    • Aboriginal
    • Torres Strait Islander