70.033 - Reciprocal Mentoring for Critical, Activist Scholarship

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This panel draws from experiences of mentoring relationships in the context of changing conditions in higher education, which often serve to limit more critical research agendas in education and related fields. Connecting three “generations” of mentors and mentees, this session will engage questions including, What roles do reciprocal mentoring play in activist critical scholarship? What forms of intentional community and feminist ally models might best support early career scholars? How have mentoring relationships contributed to our collective scholarship? Papers draw in part from data collected from a dissertation support group now in its 5th year and collaborative scholarship reflecting upon the centrality of mentoring relationships in promoting and supporting activist scholarship and scholarly activism.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 4: Social Context of Education Policy, Politics, and Praxis

Chair

• Beth Blue Swadener, Arizona State University

Papers

• Communities of Inclusion and Exclusion in Mentoring: Who Has the Legitimacy to Speak Truth, or Truth in Relation to Power/Knowledge in the Academy? - Marianne N. Bloch, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• Enacting Feminist Alliance Principles in a Doctoral Writing Support Group - Lacey Elizabeth Peters, Hunter College - CUNY; Kimberly Ann Eversman, Wartburg College; Beth Blue Swadener, Arizona State University

• Time to Come From the Shadows: Reflections on Reciprocal Mentoring and a "New" Activist Scholarship - Mark Nagasawa, Erikson Institute; Beth Blue Swadener, Arizona State University

Discussant

• Bekisizwe S. Ndimande, The University of Texas - San Antonio