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This paper considers the role of eportfolios as an online tool intended to foster greater engagement between parent, teacher and child in early education settings. Drawing on New Zealand based research, I will critically examine the introduction of this technology as more than an addition into already existing ECEC services. Rather, I will highlight the generative impact it has in facilitating new kinds of relations between parents, teachers and managers, within what I term an emergent ‘virtual landscape of ECEC’. Ultimately I argue that this landscape is shaped by asymmetries of power, which allow for processes of subjectification and governing in ECEC to occur in new ways.

E-portfolios and relational space in the early education environment

School of People, Environment and Planning

Journal of Pedagogy

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This paper considers the role of eportfolios as an online tool intended to foster greater engagement between parent, teacher and child in early education...

E-portfolios and relational space in the early education environment

Published Online: Jul 31, 2018

Page range: 23 - 44

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jped-2018-0002

Keywords
eportfolios, relational space, ANT, virtual landscape of ECEC, governing

© 2018 Aisling Gallagher, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

E-portfolios and relational space in the early education environment

Published Online: Jul 31, 2018

Page range: 23 - 44

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jped-2018-0002

Keywordseportfolios, relational space, ANT, virtual landscape of ECEC, governing

© 2018 Aisling Gallagher, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
eportfolios, relational space, ANT, virtual landscape of ECEC, governing