From teaching to mentoring
Subtitle: principle and practice, dialogue and life in adult education
By: Lee Herman and Alan Mandell.
Contributors: Mandell, Alan, 1950-
Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
Subjects: Mentoring in education.; Adult learning.
Description: "The book discusses what mentoring is, and why it is now so much in demand. Drawing upon two decades of extensive research and practice, and using a variety of illuminating case studies, the authors offer a stimulating and thorough examination of mentoring, integrating theory and practice throughout. It will be invaluable to anyone involved in the teaching of adults in further and higher education, as well as university administrators, programme directors, and development and training officers."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: What is mentoring?; title: The principles of mentoring and the philosophy of dialogue; title: Asking questions; title: Waiting as learning; title: Curriculum as collaborative planning and learning; title: The personal and the academic : dialogue as cognitive love; title: The mentor as learner : habits of work; title: Authenticity and artifice : mentoring in virtual reality; title: Access to and within the academy; title: Epilogue : from teaching to mentoring.