Portfolios: Documenting a journey shows how compiling portfolios can provide ‘opportunities to scaffold, transform, monitor, review and evaluate learning and development in partnership with others’.

In Portfolios: Documenting a journey experienced authors Andrea Nolan and Bronwyn Reynolds suggests that portfolios allow children and teachers to reflect on evolving practices and understandings, plan for improvement and foster a sense of belonging and wellbeing.

Building on the idea that the process and product are of equal importance, Nolan and Reynolds explore the philosophies that underpin portfolios and include information on designing portfolios for different occasions.

Portfolios: Documenting a journey aims to inspire early childhood practitioners to begin documenting their teaching and learning journey along with the families they work with.

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