Using ‘Electronic Portfolios’ to Challenge Current Orthodoxies in the Presentation of an Initial Teacher Training Design and Technology Activity |
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Authors: | David Spendlove Matthew Hopper |
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Institution: | (1) School of Education, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, United Kingdom;(2) Faculty of Education, Community and Leisure, Liverpool John Moores University, I.M.Marsh Campus, Barkhill Road Aigburth, Liverpool, L17 6BD, United Kingdom |
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Abstract: | The paper examines the extent to which a University undergraduate curriculum initiative provided initial teacher trainees
with opportunities to challenge orthodox design methodologies through the production of an electronic portfolio within and
extended design and technology activity. It was found that the ‘electronic portfolio’ served primarily as a developmental
tool for promoting creative continuity and sound, reflective, design practice within a structured educational design challenge.
The portfolio also provided a focus for the development of ‘e’ learning skills as it facilitated the use of new technologies
in the compilation of the portfolio. Additionally, the portfolio provided trainees with a means by which they were able to
demonstrate their capability to prospective employers. The use of the ‘electronic portfolio’ challenges current orthodoxy
and methods routinely employed to present and assess trainees’ creative work, which have been shown to constrain innovative
practice. The paper concludes that the use of the ‘electronic’ portfolio was successful in facilitating trainees’ engagement
with a creative Design and Technology process. |
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Keywords: | creativity Design and Technology (D& T) design practice electronic portfolio Initial Teacher Training (ITT) innovation |
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