"Authentic Pedagogy gives the impression that it is a more 'natural' pedagogy, in contrast to the 'artificiality' of the formalistic, imposed didactic pedagogy. Didactic pedagogy is based on a model of education as cultural transmission-- of rules,of correct usages, of respect for the canon of literacy greatness. So authentic pedagogy throws away the textbooks and replaces them with th real stuff of students' 'authentic' experiences and voices, a pedagogy in which students' knowledge develop naturally.

source: https://newlearningonline.com/literacies/chapter-5/kalantzis-and-cope-debating-authentic-pedagogy