Contemporary Issues on Democracy and Mentorship: A Literature Review

• In Event: Roundtable Session 28
  In Roundtable Session: Mentorship and Mentoring Practices SIG Roundtable

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to contribute education research from the mentoring field. An objective of this review of the scholarly literature on mentoring is to spark debate about contemporary issues on democracy and mentoring in published research. The researcher describes some perspectives on critical contemporary issues by exploring tensions between democratic (e.g., alternative) and nondemocratic (e.g., traditional) mentoring. Emphases were given to scholarly reviews of the mentoring literature, articles published in a premier mentoring journal, and books from a series on mentoring perspectives. Six primary mentoring tensions discovered for educating diverse democracies are: informal mentoring and formal mentoring; identical mentoring and diverse mentoring; mentoring and coaching; mentoring and induction, face-to-face and e-mentoring, and self-regulated mentoring and other-directed mentoring.

Author

• Carol A. Mullen, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University