Full Description
This essential collection presents a diverse range of perspectives on mentoring in Early Learning and Care from academic and applied viewpoints, challenging traditional approaches and providing a rich exploration of mentoring from both theoretical and practical angles. Drawing from the perspectives of critical inquiry, Reggio Emilia, Indigenous worldviews, feminist and posthumanist theories, and more, this book explores how mentoring can be reimagined to support policymaking, educator training, recruitment and retention, and professional development. With contributions from leading scholars, practitioners, and advocacy groups, the book presents insights to re-orient mentoring at every stage of an educator's career—whether pre-service, in-service, or retirement. Essential reading for Early Childhood Education faculty, administrators, pedagogical leaders, researchers, and those involved in workforce development, this book offers the knowledge and inspiration needed to re-story mentoring as a vital force for progress in the field.
Contents
Part 1: Theoretical Inheritances: Language of Mentorship, Perspectives, and Framing 1. Sharing Our Gifts While Building Relationships 2. From Advocacy to Caring Activism: Centering a Feminist Ethics of Care to Reimagine Mentorship and Advocacy in Early Childhood Education through the Co-creation of Care Collectives 3. Professional Regulatory Perspectives on Mentoring 4. Having and Being a Pedagogical Companion: An Alternative Perspective on Mentoring 5. Take Back Your Time!: Nurturing Voice in Pedagogical Mentorship Part 2: Stories from the Field: Different Perspectives on Mentorship 6. Mentoring Reflections: Taking to the Open Sea 7. "Just Students": A Short Mentoring Story of Immense Possibilities 8. The Multifaceted Nature of Mentoring: Observations from a Formalized Mentorship Program in Ontario 9. Rethinking Mentorship in a Linguistic Minority Context: Innovative Perspectives for Transforming Practice 10. What's in It for Me and for You?: The Implications of Social Exchange for Creating Meaningful Mentoring Relationships Part 3: Speculative Futurities 11. Incorporating Multiple Voices in Early Childhood Education: A Reciprocal Mentoring Perspective 12. The Materiality of Kinship: Informal Mentoring Practices within Early Learning and Childcare in Scotland 13. Baglady Collective Mentor-ship: Theoretical, Caring, and Disruptive Acts 14. Notes for a Hundred Languages of Mentoring 15. Rethinking Mentorship in Early Childhood Education and Care: Pedagogical Encounters, Ethical Responsibility, and the Possibilities of Becoming 16. Dialogic Mentoring as a Pathway for Exploring Class, Race, and Ethnicity 17. Mentoring with Love: Transforming Relationships Through Play, Connection, and Healing
