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Publication Date: 2021
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Collecting a Revolution: Antiracist ePortfolio Pedagogy and Student Agency That Assesses the University
McLellan, Peter N.
International Journal of ePortfolio, v11 n2 p117-130 2021
ePortfolios are spaces in which students create knowledge that can transform the university if faculty and administrators are willing to listen. This article explores the revolutionary potential of ePortfolios as spaces for antiracist institutional assessment in conversation with the twentieth-century cultural critic Walter Benjamin. Programmatic assessment has trended toward survey and review measures determined within a racist structure: higher education. As tools that encourage student agency and sense of ownership, ePortfolios instead provide space for students of color to write counternarratives out of their own knowledge. The present essay argues that the knowledge created within these self-owned spaces can run counter to the white supremacist knowledge assessed by and strengthening the academy, offering alternative methods to assessing degrees of curricular and institutional success.
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Portfolios (Background Materials), Portfolio Assessment, College Students, Minority Group Students, Racial Bias, Justice, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Equal Education, Educational Change, Capstone Experiences
Center for Teaching and Learning, University of Georgia. North Instructional Plaza, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602. e-mail: ijep@vt.edu; Web site: http://www.theijep.com
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom (England)
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