Authentic Leadership in Immersive Learning Environments: Teachers as Affective, Cognitive, and Pedagogical Enablers

Immersive learning environments require effective facilitators to enable student learning. In currentliterature on immersive learning, there is limited insight on the role that teacher behaviors have onfostering learning. Despite this, there is considerable literature on the role of the teacher as a leaderin contemporary classrooms. This chapter focuses on the authentic leader behaviors in teachers andhow this may affect student success. While student learning can be viewed from many perspectives, thischapter focuses on three perspectives: affective, cognitive, and pedagogical. The literature enables theestablishment of the belief that teachers who embody authentic leader behaviors are likely to be moresuccessful in facilitating student learning within an immersive learning environment. Implications andfuture research opportunities are also highlighted as a result of the theory generation in this chapter.