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Overview
The Mentorship Primer raises awareness about the value of mentoring and presents its changing and complex meaning for students, educators, and leaders. Anyone searching for guidance in their profession or for a clearer picture of mentorship in its myriad forms will benefit from reading this book, complete with glossaries and references.Synopsis
Mullen (University of South Florida) frames the essential philosophical, historical, and epistemological foundations of mentoring, and explores the potential value of mentor relationships in public school and college teaching programs. She describes technical mentoring, which maintains the status quo through hierarchically entrenched power structures and efficiency frameworks, and the alternative approaches of collaborative mentoring, lifelong mentoring, sociocultural learning activity, and mentoring communities. No index is provided. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR