Portfolios that 'carry on' Presented by Professor Margaret Carr

Portfolios can be more than a place to store Learning Stories. They can have a robust role to play in education, and there are many ways in which this role plays out. Maybe e-Portfolios do too, and we can have a conversation about this during the evening of this lecture. One of the roles that interests me in particular is the philosophical notion that, in portfolios, stories and collections of drawings and photographs can be a space of authoring. Tim Ingold, an anthropologist, in a book entitled Anthropology and/as Education writes (p.12): “Stories overlap, with each telling leaning over and touching the next. So too do the lives of which they tell. That’s the way they carry on”. I will talk about this idea for early childhood and Te Whāriki.