... Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Mentoring Early childhood education New teachers Beginning teachers Online professional learning and development Communities of practice Mentees Implications of high-quality early childhood education and care (ECEC) in the early years...

...Samantha Shields; Megan Murray Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore beginning teachers’ perceptions of the role of the mentor in the early stages of developing a professional identity. The beginning teachers in the authors’ study are defined as having been awarded qualified teacher...

...Jane Kirkby; Julianne Moss; Sally Godinho Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present how the social learning theory of Bourdieu (1990; Bourdieu and Passeron, 1990) can be a valuable tool to investigate mentoring relationships of beginning teachers with their more experienced colleagues...

... process. Thus, this study focuses upon an often neglected aspect of mentoring – mentoring policy. Mentoring Mentoring in education Beginning teachers Induction programmes Literature overview Policy and mentoring induction The most common focus of the articles was the effectiveness...

...Justina Tan Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore mentoring experience through positioning theory lens. It discusses, specifically, the mentoring experience of beginning teachers and mentors in a school in Singapore. Design/methodology/approach This study uses a case study approach...