Reflexões sobre a síndroma do portefolio

Abstract

The area of education knows a considerable ardour by the portfolio. However, the discordant voices seem to advertise that its passion has overcome its paroxysm. The Swiss Educateur Magazine in a recent edition puts the question: instrument of training or sand for the eyes? Some teachers in service criticize the instrument because they afraid that economy has been confiscating the education. Besides these reserves, projects diffuse themselves, namely in teacher’s training. In the field of professional training, Swiss Pedagogic Institute for the Occupational Formation (ISPFP), in Zollikofen and Lausanne, was also contaminated for the portefoliomania and works, since 1995, on different projects. They were object of stories at the specialized magazines (Behrens 1997, 2000), they contributed for the politicians brainstormings about the occupational formation (ISPFP, 1997) or they were recaptured at the ateliers of Behrens formation. The present article shows how the practices of portfolio, adjacently ones to the others, can conform very different objectives. As effect, when teachers in service prepare the applications of portfolio, they are many times surprised by the polisenses of the term and about the multitude of uses which are associated. The non-existence of an explicitness concept does with that proposals presented oscilem amidst the application as help to the learner, evaluation procedure or as a utensil of managing of the career.