In Authentic Educating, Leahy describes teaching methods that can be used in every discipline and strategies that work in classrooms from elementary to graduate school. Authentic educating integrates several philosophic perspectives to yield theory and practice that encourages high levels of teaching and learning in elementary through graduate school. Authentic educating helps students to understand concepts from mathematics to chemistry to music and language arts in ways that engage them cognitively and emotionally. Authentic educative events are project-oriented and include personal and academic products. Projects entail students doing and making things guided by powerful learning tools. Personal products include: reaction papers, personal journals, concept maps, performing plays, and constructing Vee diagrams. Academic products include: essays, term papers, field journals, exams, concept maps to summarize novels and articles, panel presentations and discussions, and Vees. The aim of this book is to create authentic relationships that resonate within the principles of democracy upon which this country was founded. Readers can gain a deeper understanding of the teaching methods described in this book by viewing the video samples featured on the Authentic Educating website, www.authenticeducating.com.

About the Author
Robert M. Leahy, Ph.D. and M.Ed., is an associate professor in the Department of Teacher Education at Stetson University. This book is the product of almost forty years of teaching and writing about education.

Reviews
The text, a worthy resource for philosophy of education and methods courses, provides numerous examples of ways students can use concept maps and Vee diagrams in their papers, presentations, and panel discussions. With the current emphasis on assessment as a vital aspect of educating reform, the chapter on how to score concept maps is especially helpful.... Recommended. * CHOICE, May 2010 *
Professor Leahy is in the very best sense a progressive. He believes that education is an integration of thoughts, feelings, and actions which leads not only to knowledge but to character...Authentic Educating is a well-written treatise on how and why education is complicated, transformative, and fundamental to our social fabric. -- Nicholas Colangelo, Myron and Jacqueline Blank Professor of Gifted Education, College of Education, The University of Iowa



Book Information
ISBN 9780761845928
Author Robert Leahy
Format Paperback
Page Count 190
Imprint University Press of America
Publisher University Press of America
Weight(grams) 272g
Dimensions(mm) 233mm * 154mm * 10mm