Full Description
Although cultural issues have a powerful influence on the failure and success of mentoring programs and relationships, there is scant research on this area and little in the way of guidelines that practitioners can use to help assure mentoring success. This book seeks to expand our knowledge and understanding of this topic and to foster the use of this information to enhance practice and research.
The book is unique in a number of ways and will be an important resource for all those engaged in mentoring endeavors and for those conducting research in this area. First, it presents research findings on the cultural impact of mentoring at the individual relational level, at the organizational level, and within the structures of the society. Secondly, the chapters describe mentoring from an international perspective including programs from Africa, Australia, Canada, Finland, India, Ireland, Korea, Scotland, Sweden and the United States. Third, the book is research based and yet, can be easily applied to practice. Chapters provide information on lessons learned and also include reflective questions to enable the reader to delve more deeply into the constructs and findings in order to apply them to their own practice and research. This makes the book an ideal resource for training mentors and mentees, for designing mentoring programs, for teaching about mentoring, and for establishing and maintaining mentoring relationships. It also will be of value to those who are engaged in conducting research on how to create and maintain successful mentoring relationships and programs.
Contents
Introduction, Frances K. Kochan.
Section I: Exploring Culture Within Mentoring Relationships.
Chapter 2. The Individual, Culture, and Mentoring, André M. Green.
Chapter 3. Women's Ways of Collaborating: A Study of Cross-Cultural Peer Mentoring, Ann Unterreiner, Joyanne De Four-Babb, Anne L. Kern, and Ke Wu.
Chapter 4. Strength-Based Peer Mentoring in Undergraduate Education: An Avenue for Mutual Growth and Understanding, Cathleen Morreale and Heather Hagenbuch.
Chapter 5. Examining the Influence of Mentor Sociodemographic Profiles on Mentoring Activities, Manju P. George.
Chapter 6. A Cultural Connection to Identity Development for Graduate Female Students of Color, Brenda Marina.
Chapter 7. Navigating Cross-Cultural Mentoring Relationships to Assure Success for Immigrant Entrepreneurs: An In-Depth Analysis, Roxanne Reeves.
Section II. The Impact of Organizational Culture on Mentoring.
Chapter 8. The Organization, Culture, and Mentoring, Andrea M. Kent.
Chapter 9. eMediated Mentoring: Factors That Influence Online Mentoring Experiences for Secondary Science Teachers, EunJin Bang, Sissy S. Wong, Jonah B. Firestone, and Julie A. Luft.
Chapter 10. Constructing a Professional Learning Community of Mentors and Researchers: Cultural Dimensions of a Process, Aline Maria de Medeiros Rodrigues Reali, Regina Maria Simões Puccinelli Tancredi, and Maria da Graça Nicoletti Mizukami.
Chapter 11. (Re)Viewing Mentoring Relations: Culture, Contexts, Cameras and the Complexity of Being Persons-in-Relation in Mentoring, Linda Craig.
Chapter 12. Developing a Culture of Collaboration Using Mentoring Triads in a Preservice Teacher Program, Angelina Ambrosetti, John Dekkers, and Bruce Allen Knight.
Chapter 13. Cultural Influences That Facilitated and Hindered the Mentoring Process: A Longitudinal Review, Gary M. Kilburg.
Section III. The Influence of Societal Culture on Mentoring.
Chapter 14. The Organization, Culture, and Mentoring, Frances K. Kochan.
Chapter 15. Culture and Mentoring: Teacher Preparation in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, Laura Gail Lunsford and Estrella Ochoa.
Chapter 16. Enhancing Multicultural Competence and Communities Through Transformative Mentoring Within International Immersion Programs, Suhyun Suh and John Dagley.
Chapter 17. A Culture of Trust or an Ideology of Distrust: Comparing Finnish and Swedish Educational Culture and the Impact on National Mentoring Approaches, Göran Fransson.
Chapter 18. The Cultural Dynamics of Mentoring in the Sociopolitical Context of Teacher Education in the Republic of Ireland, Geraldine Mooney Simmie and Joanne Moles.
Chapter 19. An Old Tradition and the New Beginning: Mentoring in Africa, Hilary Geber.
Chapter 20. Enhancing Career Success for Aboriginal Professionals: Uncovering the Cultural Interface Within Mentoring, Al Dawood, Naomi Konza, and Ann Rolfe.
Chapter 21. Love Punks: Digital Creativity and Young People Making a Difference, Stuart Campbell and Dave Palmer.
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