45 minutes
Presenters: Wendy Johnston & Sally Ann Starkey, LJMU, and Mike Mounfield, Operations Director of Lu Ban Restaurant, International Academy of Chinese Arts and the Lu Ban Foundation
Look back at Wendy Johnston, Sally Ann Starkey, and Mike Mounfield conference session who argued that to genuinely engage students in learning, the classroom environment can have limitations, and that there are many advantages in locating teaching in authentic environments. The session demonstrated how authentic, interactive, learning experiences beyond the traditional classroom brought the curriculum to life.
In the session they talk of a case study in food education. Innovative, authentic, active learning activities were designed collaboratively with Lu Ban and Kendal College, both of which had professional kitchens, to link theory with practice, to encourage critical creative thinking and to develop graduate skills.
Watch this if you have an interest in tailoring real-life applications of knowledge and skills, supporting students to apply learning to real-world contexts and bridge the theory–practice gap.
Keywords: active, authentic, transformative
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