Reenvisioning Mentoring for Equitable Outcomes: Changing Philosophies, Practices, and Systems

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

By investigating neglected pedagogical practices and contradictory organizational demands, the symposium "Reenvisioning Mentoring for Equitable Outcomes: Changing Philosophies, Practices, and Systems" focuses on international aspects of mentoring as a popular, but marginalized training method in international teacher education. Stressing the need of further research on organizational and individual aspects of the topic, it focuses social aspects as race, racism, and the effects of the pandemic on individualized learning, reciprocal effects of mentoring in schools as "learning organizations" and mentors’ decision making through the framework of niceness. In these contexts, scientific findings on mentoring practices are put forward as means for expanding knowledge on how to cultivate equitable education systems in teacher education in Germany and in the US.

Sub Unit

• World Education Research Association

Chair

• Susanne Maria Weber, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany

Papers

• Supporting Beginning Teachers of Color Through Culturally Responsive Mentorship - Crystal Polite Glover, Winthrop University; Chinyere Ngozi Harris, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Mentoring Student Interns During the School Lockdown: Individualized Learning in Teacher Training - Catrin Siedenbiedel, Universität Kassel

• Mentoring in Schools as "Learning Organizations": Organizational Innovation by Mentoring in German Teacher Education - Andrea Maria Gergen, Philipps-Universität Marburg

• When "Nice" Isn't "Just": Exploring Mentors' Decision Making Through the Framework of Niceness - Wendy L. Gardiner, Pacific Lutheran University; Nina F. Weisling, Carthage College

Discussant

• Alberto Massimo Crescentini, The University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland