Accepting Educational Responsibility as an International Mentor Creating Living Theory Cultures of Inquiry

• In Event: Self-Study, Mentoring, and the Next Generation of Teacher Educators

Abstract

With the question, “How can I improve my practice? as intention to improve the social order and contribute to human flourishing, the paper contributes to AERA’s theme of ‘Accepting Educational Responsibility’. In the process of voluntary mentoring of doctoral and post-doctoral individuals around the globe through the creation of living theory cultures of inquiry, the author explains her commitment to mentoring living global citizens who engage in social activism in their communities of practice. Using values as explanatory principles in the Living Theory methodology, the researchers from different countries and sites of practice are supported to create their own-living-educational theories and demonstrate ‘greater care about what happens in society’. Visual digital data provides evidence of the claims to know.

Author

• Jacqueline D. Delong, International Mentor