A CRITICAL LOOK AT THE PORTFOLIO AS A TOOL FOR REFLECTIVE LEARNING: STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS Cover Image

O privire critică asupra portofoliului ca instrument pentru învăţarea reflectivă: percepţia studenţilor
A CRITICAL LOOK AT THE PORTFOLIO AS A TOOL FOR REFLECTIVE LEARNING: STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS

Author(s): Elena Marin
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Education
Published by: Centrul Național de Politici și Evaluare în Educație
Keywords: pre-service teachers; portfolio; reflective practice; university;

Summary/Abstract: The new challenges faced by the future teachers make them assume a new role, that of reflective practitioner. Therefore, university programs should give future teachers the opportunity to engage in practical experiences that will stimulate their reflective skills and which can help create a strong and authentic teaching career. In this sense, a series of interventions, at a simulated level, were put into practice by the students in Pedagogy enrolled in year II at the University of Bucharest. After participating in the proposed activities, the students had to write a reflective essay. A series of focus-groups were organised in order to identify the students’ opinion towards the use of a reflective essay as a way of professional training. The results show that the reflective essay is a tool that plays a significant role in building better and more meaningful learning experiences and helps in providing evidence-based methodological decisions.

  • Issue Year: LXVIII/2020
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 157-171
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: English, Romanian