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Authentic Educating is a philosophic and practical approach, developed by Dr. Robert Leahy, currently teaching at Stetson University. It involves methods that can be used in every discipline and strategies that work in classrooms from elementary to graduate school, with the aim to help people move toward authenticity. Authenticity entails thinking about fairness and equality, feeling care for and intimacy with others, and acting through dialogue to understand others and reciprocity to treat them fairly. Authentic Educating aims to develop citizens of the world to overcome racism, sexism and other biases in order to create a better world.
Robert Leahy has been a professor in the Department of Teacher Education at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida since 1989. He has a B.S. in chemistry from Cortland College, a Master's in Counseling from the University of Vermont, and a PhD in Philosophy of Education from Cornell University. He taught junior high and high school science. he taught philosophy and philosophy of education at Cortland College, Wayne State University and University of Tampa prior to teaching at Stetson. His book Authentic Educating: Solutions for a World at Risk is scheduled for publication in Fall 2008. You can see examples of Authentic Educating on his website at www.authenticeducating.com
