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标题：The Use of Visual Images in Building Professional Self Identities
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作者：Jennifer Munday ; Jennifer Rowley ; Patsie Polly 等
期刊名称：International Journal of ePortfolio
电子版ISSN：2157-622X
出版年度：2017
卷号：7
期号：1
页码：53-65
出版社：VirginiaTech
摘要：ePortfolios are recognized as a pedagogical process that facilitates and benefits the development ofprofessional practice and critical thinking, curriculum, and assessment for Higher Educationacademic teachers. Effective personalized introductions to ePortfolios engage with the reader bysharing narratives and personal perspectives that demonstrate reflective thinking. This articledescribes a professional development symposium workshop in which a hybrid process explored thevisualizing of professional selves. It built on a previous professional development session in whichcreators of ePortfolios were asked to find an image used as a metaphor or symbol explaining aphilosophy of professional practice. The process described here is an amalgamation of techniquescurrently used in separate undergraduate degree programs by each author and adapted todemonstrate a way to think about the self as a professional and was planned by the authors afterconducting a year-long series of webinars on ePortfolio professional development. The imagescreated by the symposium participants and their supporting statements demonstrate that explanationsof a sense of professional self were enhanced by the ePortfolio introduction, narrative writing, andprofessional philosophy to engage an audience effectively. Application of this process allows visualimages, whether literal, metaphoric, or symbolic, to provide a means for academics as well as postandundergraduate students to present and explain their professional selves to an audience.