基本説明
Identifying mentoring practices at all levels and specifically applying them to curriculum development.
Full Description
Lily Orland-Barak offers us a breathtaking work of science ?ction. Or perhaps I should say 'science and ?ction. ' The science side of the equation employs sophisticated technique for observing and describing interpersonal and intrapersonal dynamics among professionals in education. Both dramatic and seemingly ordinary episodes in the lives of teachers in relational tension with one another are analyzed with scienti?c care, precision, and insight. The scienti?c study of mentoring is like the scienti?c study of soap bubbles - their formation, growth, and sudden exit from the visible world with a nearly soundless 'pop!' Scienti?c and intellectual tools can be used to describe and predict the behavior of soap bubbles, to study their colors, shapes, surface tension, and tiny mass. The same is true of the study of mentoring. But in both cases, the greatest care must be taken to avoid popping the almost m- ically elegant form - to avoid destroying the delicate relationship by rushing in, by heavy attempts at control, or by premature dissection, or even by paying attention too intensely to a private, personal relationship. Mentoring is best studied by being still, by listening with authentic interest, and by using our peripheral vision. The science and the scientist have done their best work here. The ?ction side of this ?ne book gives life to telling examples of mentoring in action.
Contents
Introduction: Learning to Mentor-as-Praxis Foundations for a Curriculum in Teacher Education.- Learning to Mentor as Praxis: Situating the Conversation.- Learning to Mentor-as-Praxis: Toward a Conceptual Framework.- Domain of Appreciation.- Domain of Participation.- Domain of Improvisation.- Reciprocal Connections in Dyadic Interactions.- Reciprocal Connections in Group Interactions.- Toward the Design of a Curriculum on Learning to Mentor.- Records of Mentoring Practices.- Constructivist-Dialogic Pedagogies: Lessons From the Field.- Epilogue: Putting It All Together.
