Mentoring Experiences of Faculty Members Using a Developmental Narrative Inquiry Approach

• In Event: Poster Session 1
  In Poster Session: Research on Mentoring and Mentorship

Abstract

In the past, mentoring in higher education institutions has focused on the one-on-one relationship between a more experienced, tenured faculty member and a junior faculty member. This paper offers an avenue for faculty who are at different stages in their professional careers to mutually evaluate and reflect on their professional growth process using an innovative practice of mentoring termed as a developmental narrative inquiry process. Specifically, the authors, a junior faculty, mentoring faculty and a department chair, will describe how they utilized narrative developmental inquiry within their mentoring process and how it helped them individually.

Authors

• Christine Wanjiku Nganga, The George Washington University

• Mary Bowne, South Dakota State University

• Andrew J. Stremmel, South Dakota State University