Enacting Care as a Social Praxis in Mentoring

• In Event: Friday Roundtable Session 7:45 am
  In Roundtable Session: Mentoring Through Storytelling, Writing, and Reading (Table 2)

Abstract

In this paper, the authors propose care ethics and transformative learning as having the potential to improve doctoral outcomes. Through a collaborative autoethnographic inquiry they tap into the multivocality of their mentoring relationship by integrating storytelling, dialogic inquiry, and doctoral mentoring practices. The themes discussed include, learning through a relational care praxis, learning through synergistic group mentorship, and learning through the structured and unstructured moments.

Authors

• Alexandra Laing, The George Washington University

• Shaun D Shepard, The George Washington University

• Christine W Nganga, The George Washington University