Response to an Invitation: Peer Mentored Support for Undergraduate Tutors Advocating Change

• In Event: 29.067 - Invitational Theory and Practice in Multiple Contexts

Abstract

This presentation will report on pre-service undergraduate reading tutors’ response to an invitation to serve as peer mentors in an online blogging community. Findings describe how the online blogging community provided the reading tutors with a forum to discuss their perceptions of the events occurring in the local elementary schools as well the intersection of their developing self-concept and activities in their field experiences (Purkey, 1991; Purkey & Novak, 1999; Shaw & Siegel, 2010; Shaw, Siegel, & Schoenlein, 2013). The tutors also practiced what Dewey (1916/2001) might refer to as the “habits of mind which secure social changes” (p. 104) utilizing the online blogging community to deliberate and promote action on issues related to equity and justice.

Authors

• Natalie Babiak Weber, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor

• Jennifer Moon Ro, University of North Georgia