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Productive Tensions in Mentoring
Sat, April 5, 8:15 to 9:45am, Convention Center, Floor: 100 Level, 118BSession Type: Symposium
Abstract
This symposium focuses on tensions in a global mentoring network composed of women academics in countries such as Egypt, Trinidad, Australia, Canada, and the United States. The elasticity of the overall global network allows for expansion and contraction. The elasticity and the reorganization into mentoring circles via technospaces (Knouse, 2001) surfaced tensions related to collaborating across power dynamics, engaging in difficult dialogues, and pushing the boundaries of our epistemological stances. To understand the power of a mentoring network to benefit women in academia, this symposium will address how its participants work through tensions (West, 2004). This symposium is concerned with the possibility that tension, worked through, can be harnessed to serve as a productive rather than destructive force.
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Dynamics of Tension and a Sense of Belonging in a Mentoring Community of Women Faculty - Ke Wu, University of Montana; Nilsa J. Thorsos; Anne L. Kern, University of Idaho; Brittany Danielle Baldwin, Georgia State University
Tensions in Cross-Cultural Mentoring - Talia Randa Esnard, The University of Trinidad and Tobago; Deirdre Cobb-Roberts, University of South Florida; Ke Wu, University of Montana; Ann Unterreiner, Education Consultant/Independent Scholar; Vonzell Agosto, University of South Florida; Zorka Karanxha, University of South Florida; Makini Z. Beck, Valdosta State University
The Power of Dialogue and Meaningful Connectedness for Two Female Scholars of Color - Makini Z. Beck, Valdosta State University; Christine Wanjiku Nganga, The George Washington University
Collegiality, Loyalty, and Friendship: Emerging Tensions in the C-Y-F - Ann Unterreiner, Education Consultant/Independent Scholar; Laurette Maria Stacy Bristol, Charles Sturt University; Antonette M. Aragon, Colorado State University; Joyanne Beverly De Four-Babb, Caribbean Educators' Research Initiative