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Women’s Ways of Mentoring in the Academy: Reflections Across Transnational Borders
Mon, April 16, 4:05 to 6:05pm, Vancouver Convention Centre, Floor: Second Level, East Room 14Session Submission Type: Symposium
Abstract
The aim of this symposium is to illustrate, through five papers and a discussant, how we have come to understand mentoring as pedagogy. We argue that a practice of encounter is a space for dialogue, negotiation and mediation by turning a cross-cultural, feminist gaze to our multi-layered discourse. We express women’s ways of mentoring in the academy as (1) a professional learning practice and (2) a form of sociality (Ahmed 2000) through our encounters with each other; encounters which have been prefigured through personal and professional pathways. These moments and types of contact have worked to shape a specific practice of a collaborative methodology in which we conceptualise professional research practices as a pedagogy of mentorship
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“Storying the Self”: My Journey as an Afro-Caribbean Woman Academic in Search of a Mentor - Makini Z. Beck, Valdosta State University
Journey Into the Embrace of Risk: A Collaboration of Allies Across Races and Conferences - Vonzell Agosto, University of South Florida; Zorka Karanxha, University of South Florida
Mentoring Across Universities: A Caribbean Educators Research Initiative - Laurette Maria Stacy Bristol, Charles Sturt University; Joyanne Beverly De Four-Babb, Caribbean Educators' Research Initiative; Talia Randa Esnard, The University of Trinidad and Tobago; Jennifer Lavia, The University of Sheffield; Lisa Joanna Perez, The University of Trinidad and Tobago
Storying our Academic Career Transitions Within a Peer-Mentoring Community - Jerine Pegg, University of Alberta; SueAnn I. Bottoms, Oregon State University; Hilary Smith Risser, Montana Tech; Anne E. Adams, University of Idaho; Anne L. Kern, University of Idaho; Ke Wu, University of Montana
Opening Borders: The Development of Emerging Mentoring Practices - Anne L. Kern, University of Idaho; Joyanne Beverly De Four-Babb, Caribbean Educators' Research Initiative; Ann Unterreiner, Valdosta State University; Ke Wu, University of Montana