Productive Pathways for Teacher Education: Portfolios on the Agenda

Abstract

The paper reconceptualizes the traditional research at the Bachelors (Hons) and Masters (Hons) levels and so creates new pathways in research from Bachelors through Masters to Doctoral level. The starting point is Gibbons and colleagues (1994) 'new production of knowledge' in which university knowledge is not privileged over knowledge production in other sites such as workplaces. The three-way model of Lee, Green and Brennan (200) for Professional Doctoral education is generalised to the other two levels of university research awards and the portfolio is presented as an important alternative to the dissertation as a research product.