63.071 - Core Issues in the Study of Mentoring in Preservice Education: Toward an Integrative Research Agenda

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium presents four papers, representing major thematic foci in the study of mentoring. Specifically, we bring together three different lines of research which run parallel in the study of mentoring: 1) Skills and behaviors; 2) Reasoning, beliefs and identity formation; and 3) The place of culture, context and discourse. Drawing on empirical evidence informed by these distinctive foci, and situated in different geographical contexts, each paper will consolidate insights regarding three fundamental issues: Purposes of mentoring; mentoring processes that promote learning; and outcomes of mentoring for the student teacher and for the mentor. The symposium aims to arrive at an integrative discussion of the body of knowledge that informs the practice of mentoring in pre-service education.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Mentorship and Mentoring Practices

Chair

• Lily Orland-Barak, University of Haifa

Papers

• Training Mentor Teachers for Effective Supervision: A Focus on Cognition and Behavior - Frank Crasborn, Fontys University of Applied Science; Paul Hennissen, Zuyd University of Applied Sciences; Fred A.J. Korthagen, Utrecht University; Niels C. Brouwer, Scholing voor leraren

• Mentoring Collective Inquiry for Teacher Knowledge Development - Steven Z. Athanases, University of California - Davis

• Lesson-Based Discussion Between Mentor and Novice: Cases From U.S. and U.K. Preservice Teacher Education - Jian Wang, Texas Tech University

• Back to the Roots in Mentoring Activity: The Historical Groundings of Mentors' Discourse - Ayelet Becher, University of Haifa; Lily Orland-Barak, University of Haifa

Discussant

• Judith Warren Little, University of California - Berkeley