The Emperor's New Clothes?: Issues and Alternatives in Uses of the Portfolio in Teacher Education Programs

ISBN-13: 9781433119217 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 224 str.

Kathy Sanford;Teresa Strong-Wilson

Opis

What should be the role of the portfolio in teacher education? As an exit requirement for teacher education programs, the -professional teacher portfolio- is increasingly being tied to the accountability and standards movement, as well as to evidence-based practices. Despite becoming an all-too-common feature of faculties of education worldwide, uses of the portfolio vary widely. Pre-service teachers (its intended beneficiaries) are often those most mystified by the portfolio s use and value; is there really a benefit or have we created more empty rhetoric? The Emperor s New Clothes? demystifies the portfolio s use by mapping out some of the key thorny issues that have troubled portfolios in teacher education. It also identifies creative alternatives to the status quo on learning to become a professional educator."

Spis treści

Contents: Kathy Sanford/Teresa Strong-Wilson: The Emperor's New Clothes? Issues and Alternatives in Uses of the Portfolio in Teacher Education Programs - Susan Wray: Supporting the Process of Creating a Teaching Portfolio - Deborah Berrill/Iain Hill/Katlynn MacDonald: Negotiating the Contested Terrain of the Initial Teaching Portfolio: Secret, Sacred, and Cover Stories - David Dillon: Toward a Pedagogy of Portfolio Development - Kathy Sanford/Tim Hopper/Paige Fisher: Changing Paradigms: Embracing Contemporary Learning Theories through E-portfolios - Nona Lyons/Carmel Halton: The Reflexive Portfolio: In Support of a New Scholarship of Assessment for Professional Learning - Anne Phelan/Vetta Vratulis: «Cry Freedom»: Portfolios as Public Spaces in Teacher Education - Hans Smits: Thinking about Portfolios as an Aesthetics of Vulnerability - Christina Rudd: Unwittingly Naked or Choosing Transparency? - Teresa Strong-Wilson/Amy Cole/Nasim Noroozi: More than Window Dressing: The Place of Photographs in Teacher Identity Construction - Avril Aitken: Finding «Stories of Identity» through Digital Self-portraits - Scott Gerrity/Tim Hopper/Kathy Sanford: Case Studies on Three Iterations of E-Portfolios: Exploring Complexity in Teacher Education in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

O autorze

Kathy Sanford is Professor in the Faculty of Education at University of Victoria. Previous publications include the edited volume Lifelong Learning, the Arts and Creative Cultural Engagement (2013); Boys, Girls, and the Myths of Literacy and Learning (2008); and Youth Literacies in New Times: Everyday Everywhere (forthcoming).
Teresa Strong-Wilson is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at McGill University. Previous publications include Bringing Memory Forward (2008); Memory and Pedagogy (2011, co-edited with Mitchell, Pithouse, & Allnutt); Envisioning New Technologies in Teacher Practice (2012); and Productive Remembering and Social Agency (2013, co-edited with Mitchell, Allnutt, & Pithouse-Morgan).