Community of Practice Approaches to Mentoring Doctoral Students in Qualitative Research

• In Event: Interrogating Qualitative Methodologies for Praxis

Abstract

Graduate student mentoring programs have historically neglected the holistic needs of advanced graduate students within institutions that persist in operating from a predominantly white, male, cis-gendered, neo-liberal, and colonialist perspectives. Mentoring doctoral students is central to research methods pedagogy. Attempts to socialize students into the academy and into professional practice are in need of a refreshed set of best practices where a Community of Practice (CoP) mentoring model can simultaneously build and support a network of faculty prepared to enact critical mentoring practices among themselves and effectively engage graduate students in meaningful and productive ways. This paper offers mentoring models that support engaged, contextualized, meaningful research.

Authors

• Raji Swaminathan, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
  Presenting Author

• Thalia Mulvihill, Ball State University
  Presenting Author