Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Yancey Summary

Some key ideas I thought were engaging:

A portfolio is never neutral: it assumes a circulation of texts, a set of

relationships, and an ecology of learning.

circulation of texts

An electronic portfolio, with drafts and outtakes and

reflective commentary, assembles and articulates its own ecology of composing and

composer.

each privileges certain assumptions about learning and thus fosters certain kinds of

engagements. These engagements are located in processes and practices; in structures; and

in habituated behaviors, especially those that contribute to sustainability.

The ecological system is thus open, interacting with and informother ecologies where other values and media operate.

A second model of electronic portfolio provides a structure intended to assist students in one

of two ways: by creating a framework that students can work within, or by articulating

assumptions and frameworks that, in print, have been unarticulated

multiple

mapping: thinking through and with the general education

matrix as well as through and with the disciplinary matrix.

A third electronic portfolio model is defined by two features: (1) the opportunity to work at the

intersection of the personal and the public; and (2) the conceptualization of portfolio-making

not as a one-time opportunity, nor revision as one-time occurrence, but as a reiterative

process.

the role of the

model itself matters: it is located in a curricular ecology assuming reiteration of self and

portfolio, through the use of both new and appropriated materials.

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