Ilda
Charles Bazerman wrote:
> To add a bit of historical complexity to the portfolio assessment
> discussion, I remember that in the early seventies when the idea of
> portfolios began floating around writing people in CUNY, the idea was
> specifically associated with the portfolios of artists, photographers,
> advertising execs, actors, etc. who prepared portfolios to represent
> their talents, in pursuit of work. This certainly seems an activity
> embedded form of self-presentation and assessment. An important link in
> making this association was the portfolios prepared by art students,
> photography students, etc. during their final year in preparation for
> entering the job market. This idea then further migrated into the bowels
> of the educational system. What happens in these migrations and
> transformations may be problematic and worth examining in detail, but the
> origin of the idea was precisely in embedded activity in non-academic work
> systems.
>
> Since I am now at the age when I remember more than I think, let me turn
> Eugene's question around--what do you remember?
>
> Chuck