scholarly journals Tangled Threads: Mentoring within a community of practice

2011 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 273-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Tarr
Keyword(s):  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Peer Mentoring ◽  
Ethic Of Care ◽  
Professional Association ◽  
Mentoring Relationships ◽  
Personal Lives ◽  
Art Educators

Tangled Threads, a case study of a group of women art educators, examines the nature of mentoring relationships within the context of a professional association. Grounded in literature on community of practice, relational and peer mentoring, and an ethic of care, the study uncovers the complex interconnections between women’s professional and personal lives that serve to create contexts for fluid and diverse mentoring experiences.

Informal peer mentoring in early career researchers

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn Gregoric ◽  
Annabelle Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Complex Adaptive Systems ◽  
Adaptive Systems ◽  
Peer Mentoring ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Mentoring Relationships ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Mentoring Relationship ◽  
Early Career Researchers

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore an informal interdisciplinary peer-mentoring relationship between two early career researchers. Design/methodology/approach – A case study approach, using autoethnography, was employed to explore the relationship from a complex adaptive systems (CAS) perspective. Findings – Informal peer-mentoring relationships may improve the work effectiveness and quality of the doctoral student and early career researcher experience. CAS can be an effective overarching theory for expanding understandings about mentoring. Research limitations/implications – This case study is limited to two early career researchers. Practical implications – Informal peer mentoring may help to overcome challenges encountered by doctoral students, early career researchers and university staff members. CAS accounts of mentoring have the potential to open new possibilities for future mentoring research. Originality/value – This paper provides unique insights into the experiences of doctoral students postgraduation and a long-term informal peer-mentoring relationship. Explorations of mentoring relationships from a CAS perspective are innovative.

Writing Groups as Models for Peer Mentorship among Female Faculty in Political Science

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (02) ◽  
pp. 401-405
Author(s):  
Erin C. Cassese ◽  
Mirya R. Holman
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Research Productivity ◽  
Peer Mentoring ◽  
Mentoring Relationships ◽  
Writing Groups ◽  
Peer Mentorship ◽  
Traditional Mentoring ◽  
Scholarly Production ◽  
Flexible Mechanisms

ABSTRACTWomen are underrepresented among political science faculty and leave academic careers at far greater rates than their male colleagues. Women’s lower research productivity is one reason for the declining number of women in advanced academic ranks. Mentoring can provide necessary advice and feedback to encourage scholarly production, but research shows that female scholars face challenges in traditional mentoring arrangements. We propose that peer mentoring can provide a missing link by supporting research productivity. Using a case study of an existing peer-mentoring group, we document how writing groups can provide flexible mechanisms for peer mentoring that circumvent the obstacles women face with mentoring and complement existing mentoring relationships. We discuss the structure of this group—as well as a survey-based assessment of it—to demonstrate how this approach can be readily adopted by other women in the profession who seek to expand their network of mentors to include peers in their subfield.

scholarly journals Overcoming the “Trash Talk in Your Head”: Extending an Ethic of Care to Students Experiencing Intersectional Stigma in Community College

AERA Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 233285842110063
Author(s):  
Rebecca L. Brower ◽  
Tamara Bertrand Jones ◽  
Shouping Hu
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Community College ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Peer Mentoring ◽  
Ethic Of Care ◽  
Community Resources ◽  
Institutional Improvement ◽  
Self Perceptions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Looking Glass

Intersectional stigma is experienced by individuals who share both a minoritized identity and a socially stigmatized identity. This study examines not only both types of intersectional stigma (e.g., homelessness, addiction, history of incarceration) that exist among students but also how campus personnel have extended an ethic of care to assist these students in changing their self-perceptions or “looking glass selves” to persist and succeed in community college. Recommendations for institutional improvement include flexibility in hiring staff with the expertise of lived experience, extending social support, improving access to campus and community resources, and horizontal peer mentoring for students with stigmatized identities.

scholarly journals Socio-Cultural Development Approach to Investigate Teacher Learning across Two Contexts

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Hee-Jeong Kim
Keyword(s):  
Learning Community ◽  
Teacher Learning ◽  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Professional Learning ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Development Framework ◽  
Teacher Professional ◽  
Development Approach

Teacher professional learning occurs across various contexts. Previous studies on teacher learning and changes in practice have focused on either classroom contexts or learning communities outside of school, but have rarely investigated teacher learning across multiple contexts. Investigating teacher learning across the double contexts of classroom and learning community has presented methodological challenges. In response, this paper proposes the suitability of adopting a socio-cultural development framework to further the analytical approach to such challenges. Using the framework, this paper considers the case study of a middle school mathematics teacher who resolved a problem of teaching practice through interacting with other members of the community of practice where they build shared goals and knowledge. This paper contributes to the field by expanding the scope of research on teacher learning across these two contexts, in which problem of practice becomes conceptual resources that the teacher uses in her teaching practice.

Conferring Kinship: Examining Fictive Kinship Status in a Black Adolescent’s Natural Mentoring Relationship

2021 ◽  
pp. 009579842110026
Author(s):  
Edward D. Scott ◽  
Nancy L. Deutsch
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Mentoring Relationships ◽  
Relational Context ◽  
Mentoring Relationship ◽  
Fictive Kinship ◽  
Natural Mentoring ◽  
Narrative Methodology ◽  
Positive Feature ◽  
Nonparental Adults

This case study examines the way an adolescent Black boy extends his kinship network as a part of navigating and demonstrating agency in mentoring relationships with nonparental adults. We purposively selected one participant, Bodos, from the sample of a larger mixed-method study involving youth, aged 12 to 18 years, in the southeastern United States. Drawing on narrative methodology, we used a holistic-content approach to analyze Bodos’ responses to semistructured interviews. Bodos used several narratives to describe his experiences. We offer three findings: (a) Fictive kinship is a positive feature of Black adaptive culture that can be leveraged by Black youth as a tool for creating a distinct relational dynamic with their mentors, (b) adolescent Black boys possess skills and knowledge that both preexist and emerge within positive mentoring relationships, and (c) youth agency and expectations manifest in mentoring relationships to inform and influence those adults’ significance. This case study furthers the field’s understanding of how cultural practices can positively influence relational development and create a unique relational context and experience.

scholarly journals A Turtle’s Journey: Strengthening Indigenous Research Capacity through Mentoring

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Heron Loban
Keyword(s):  
Research Capacity ◽  
Social Impacts ◽  
Mentoring Relationships ◽  
Indigenous Research ◽  
Mentoring Program ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Matching Process

Mentoring can provide significant benefits to both the mentor and the mentee. Such relationships can develop organically, or through a matching process as part of a mentoring program, as structured mentoring. This paper examines the advantages and disadvantages of both types of mentoring in the context of strengthening Indigenous research capacity. The author reflects on her own experiences of being mentored as an Indigenous academic and researcher and the lessons that can be learned from this experience. With reference to the literature and author’s case study, the paper will focus on the potential professional, personal and social impacts of mentoring relationships for Indigenous academics.

Becoming a personal style blogger: Changing configurations and spatialities of aesthetic labour in the fashion industry

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taylor Brydges ◽  
Jenny Sjöholm
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Illustrative Case ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Fashion Industry ◽  
Personal Style ◽  
Personal Lives ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
Illustrative Case Study ◽  
Full Time Employment

The increasing pervasiveness of social media and digital technology has had a particular impact on the geographies and nature of work in the fashion industry. A new segment of entrepreneurs – fashion bloggers – are utilizing these digital technologies, such as blogs and social media, to transform their personal lives and style into online businesses. This article draws on an in-depth case study analysis of an American personal style fashion blog; tracing its nine-year evolution from an ‘outfit-of-the-day’ personal style blog, to one that encompasses her entire personal life, including diets, fitness, home décor and pregnancy. By focusing on one blog, we provide an in-depth exploration from its roots as a hobby for personal expression to a means of full-time employment in the fashion industry. Through this examination, emphasis is given to the process of becoming a blogger and the intensification of the ways in which the self is presented and commodified over time. We argue that personal style fashion bloggers provide an illustrative case study, not only for expanding our understanding of aesthetic labour in the digital age, but also highlighting the spaces and temporalities of work that these new formations and engagements of work give rise to. These processes highlight the changing configurations and spatialities of aesthetic labour online.

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