Full Description
Mentoring Within and Beyond Academia considers the role and value of mentoring within and beyond higher education contexts. Centred on five mentoring conversations around SDG-related topics such as quality education, gender equality, climate action and sustainable cities and communities, chapters showcase the link between professional academic development and its impact beyond campus walls.
Beginning with an introduction that highlights the continued relevance of mentoring in a pandemic-transformed world, the authors offer several scenarios to facilitate impactful mentoring practice. The 'flipping' of roles places the academic in the shoes of the learner/mentee, allowing them to imagine the vulnerable positions from which learners engage.
By making the mentoring process more transparent, Mentoring Within and Beyond Academia offers suggestions on how to support a fuller and more equitable organizational learning culture in universities, in line with universities' ambition to respond to current, anticipated, and not-yet-known needs in society. Fitting within the diverse and multidisciplinary field of Higher Education Studies, this is also of interest to readers with an academic background in business/leadership and organizational learning as well as to broader, non-academic audiences.
Contents
Introduction: The continued relevance of mentoring in academia; Lia Blaj-Ward
Chapter 1. Adaptive mentoring for inclusive quality education: Meeting individuals in transition at their point of need; Bongi Bangeni, Carla Fourie, and June Pym
Chapter 2. Cultivating sustainable mentoring relationships: Micro-credentials and the SDGs; Lia Blaj-Ward, Amrita Narang, and Jenny Garrett
Chapter 3. Co-designing for inclusive heritage to explore wellbeing and resilient and inclusive communities: Choosing mentors and building relationships; Ana Souto, Penelope Siebert, and Alice Ullathorne
Chapter 4. Mentoring in Sherwood Forest: Seeing the wood for the trees in a knowledge exchange project; Charlie Gregson and Steve Little
Chapter 5. Climate mentoring and coaching to create impactful assessment of climate learning at university; Lia Blaj-Ward and Petra Molthan-Hill
Conclusion: Sustainable mentoring in academia for and beyond the SDGs; Lia Blaj-Ward and Stuart Perrin
