The portfolio – a good educational practice (a review of publications)

The paper is a review article devoted to a brief overview of English-language publications on portfolio as a good tool for continuously improving the quality of education in secondary and higher-education schools. The study is an essential part of the activities of a research project aimed at creating an electronic institutional portfolio of the specialty Social Pedagogy – at the Faculty of Education, Trakia University Stara Zagora; respectively, the method used is qualitative critical review. The intention of the project is practically justified by the need to present a university specialty to various users present and potential students, alumni, employers and other business environments of social and educational services, partner institutions, including mentors of student placement practices, national and foreign and/or international corporative non-profit associations with a similar scope of educational activities sharing the same interest in the specialty for working in a net.