Authentic Voices, Authentic Encounters: Cripping the University Through American Sign Language

Patients as teachers: promoting their authentic and autonomous voices.

Editors’ note: The authors of this toolbox article have been involved in this area of health professional education for many years, and are committed advocates of the inclusion of the patient voice across the continuum of learning and training. The ‘patient as teacher’ movement acknowledges the very active role that patients and communities play in education to complement the learning that take...

Enhancing Authentic Texts for Language Learners

Enhancing Authentic Web Pages for Language Learners

Second language acquisition research since the 90s has emphasized the importance of supporting awareness of language categories and forms, and input enhancement techniques have been proposed to make target language features more salient for the learner. We present an NLP architecture and webbased implementation providing automatic visual input enhancement for web pages. Learners freely choose t...

Title: Negotiating Authentic Objects and Authentic Selves: beyond the Deconstruction of Authenticity Negotiating Authentic Objects and Authentic Selves: beyond the Deconstruction of Authenticity Negotiating Authentic Selves and Authentic Objects – the Case of Hilton of Cadboll

Our understanding of authenticity in the material world is characterised by a problematic dichotomy between materialist and constructivist perspectives. Neither explains why people find the issue of authenticity so compelling, nor how it is experienced and negotiated in practice. There is strong evidence supporting the view that prevailing materialist approaches to authenticity are a product of...

Authentic teaching and learning through synthetic biology

Synthetic biology is an emerging engineering discipline that, if successful, will allow well-characterized biological components to be predictably and reliably built into robust organisms that achieve specific functions. Fledgling efforts to design and implement a synthetic biology curriculum for undergraduate students have shown that the co-development of this emerging discipline and its futur...