The Emperor's New Clothes?

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.

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).