The document discusses the portfolio approach to teaching and learning. It proposes that the portfolio approach provides methods to make thinking visible through tools like blogs, cloud storage, and social media. It incorporates three overlapping spheres: the personal portfolio, community of inquiry, and demonstration of competency. The portfolio approach allows practitioners to be intentional lifelong learners and better contribute to their communities. The document then outlines three research questions regarding these spheres and the methodology of autoethnographic reviews and interviews to examine them.
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Narratives of Learning: The Portfolio Approach. PhD - Public Defense Presentation
1. Narratives of Learning: The Portfolio Approach
PAUL LESLIE – 2015
THE TAOS INSTITUTE
ADVISER: DR. CELIANE CAMARGO -BORGES
VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL
PROMOTER: DR. NADINE ENGELS
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Narratives of learning: Introduction
The portfolio approach to teaching and learning:
Provides methods through which educators, students, and
administrators can make our thinking visible
Incorporates elements (tools) of Internet-based technology
Blogs, cloud file storage, social media,
“THE MEDIUM IS
THE MESSAGE”
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Narratives of learning: Introduction
The portfolio approach to teaching and learning:
describes a set of overlapping spheres of intentionality
The personal portfolio
The community of inquiry
The demonstration of competency
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Narratives of learning: Introduction
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The portfolio approach to teaching and learning:
allows the practitioner to be intentional in their lifelong quest for
learning
… as a result ...
the practitioner can better contribute to and support all participants
in their communities of inquiry.
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Narratives of learning: Introduction
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Freire (1996) tells us that the truly reflective and liberated
educator, “presents the information to the students for their
consideration, reconsiders her own considerations as the students
express their own” (p. 62).
Freire, P. (1996). Pedagogy of the oppressed. London: Penguin Books.
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As Freire (1998) notes, we must create for our students and
colleagues “the possibilities for the production and construction of
knowledge” (p. 30).
Freire, P. (1998). Pedagogy of freedom. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield.
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The practitioner also has, as Freire (1998) notes, “to accept as a
duty the need to motivate and challenge the listeners to speak and
reply” (p. 104).
Freire, P. (1998). Pedagogy of freedom. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield.
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Narratives of learning: Research questions
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• Research Questions
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Narratives of learning: Research questions
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• The personal portfolio
What are the range of skills and processes that will allow
practitioners to present their own unique voice to their community
of inquiry and their stakeholders?
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Narratives of learning: Research questions
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The community of inquiry
What processes and skills must we develop as practitioners in
order to participate in communities of inquiry and benefit from each
other?
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Narratives of learning: Research questions
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The demonstration of competency
How can we work with other educators and students to allow them
to determine their own voice without abandoning the institutional
voice that comes from learning outcomes, program outcomes and
the demands of the professional workplace?
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Narratives of learning: Research methodology
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Research Methodology
Autoethnographic review
Reviews of individual portfolios
Interviews and focus groups
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Narratives of learning: Conclusions RQ 1 – Personal
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Time span of discretion
• What good is our experience?
• Who benefits from it?
• “Community echo”
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Narratives of learning: Conclusions RQ 2 - Community
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Teaching presence
We must be able to provide
direction in our communities
Direction can come from each
member of the community
Can be reflexive or non-
reflexive direction
(Garrison, Anderson, & Archer, 2000)
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Narratives of learning: Conclusions RQ 3 - Competency
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Display artful competence
Competencies and goals
determined by practitioner
and institution
Intentional selection of
media to display goals
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Narratives of Learning: Conclusion
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Time is ripe for a portfolio approach…
We have a set of media tools that allow us to share our ideas more
readily with a larger audience
Intentional social constructionist processes allow us to direct our
attentions to specific communities and stakeholders to achieve a
greater epistemological freedom