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Reality By Design - The Rhetoric and Technology of Authenticity in Education (Paperback)
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Reality By Design - The Rhetoric and Technology of Authenticity in Education (Paperback)
Series: Rhetoric, Knowledge, and Society Series
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In the first paragraphs of this volume, the author identifies an
"authenticity paradox": that the purported real-worldedness of a
learning environment, technique, or task is so rhetorically potent
that educators frequently call attention to it in pedagogical
conversations to legitimize their undertakings, while at the same
time, terms such as "real-world" and "authentic" do not require
(and even resist) precise delineation.
Using the language of authenticity as a keyhole through which to
view contemporary educational theory, Petraglia draws on theories
of cognition, education, and knowledge to articulate the
interdisciplinarity of "constructivism" and to expose the
unsettling combination of constructivism's social scientific and
epistemological commitments. He argues that a full-bodied embrace
of constructivist theory requires that educators forgo "knowledge
as we know it" and recommends a "rhetorical" approach to
constructivist instruction that recognizes the cultural, social,
and behavioral practices which play an enormous role in defining
learners' "real worlds." Applying this critique to the field of
educational technology, the author does not merely lament
constructivist theory's current shortcomings, but offers a means by
which these shortcomings can be engaged and, perhaps,
overcome.
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