...Anne-Maree Keenan; Julie Haddock-Millar; Sarah Howarth; Michael Clark; Sabrina Keating; Marius Roman; Ameenat Lola Solebo; Katherine Tucker; Holly Birkinshaw Purpose This study provides insight into the design, implementation and evaluation of a structured developmental mentoring programme...

... and harmful mentoring experiences among Black women undergraduates. Design/methodology/approach Semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted with Black female undergraduate students (n = 18) from five undergraduate institutions in the United States. Interviews were recorded...

...Gizem Mutlu Gülbak; Özkan Kırmızı Purpose This case study provides an account of eight mentor teachers’ mentoring approaches based on their reported feedback practices. Design/methodology/approach In an interpretative phenomenological design, the data were obtained through in-depth individual...

...Sue Cronin Purpose This paper aims to consider the practices and experiences of the new school-based mentors for Early Career Teachers (ECT's), emerging from the UK Government's new early career framework (ECF) policy (DfE, 2019a). The paper uses Lipsky's (2010) framing of professionals as “street...

... framework for developing mentoring opportunities for young people with BLV. Design/methodology/approach Experiences of formal and informal mentorship were gathered within two distinct groups: adolescents with BLV in Australia and young adults with BLV in Canada. Qualitative data were collected from semi...

...Angela Fitzgerald; Noeleen McNamara Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the formation, maintenance and sustenance of a mentoring dyad in higher education. By investigating the reflections of a female mentor and mentee, who both engaged in a formal Mentoring Program, the intention...

...Steve Connolly; Gareth Bates; James Shea Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report the findings from an action research project in which the researchers sought to develop a set of questions for use by mentors (experienced teachers) and mentees (pre-service teachers) on a course of initial...

...Kelly Hobson; Z.W. Taylor Purpose No research to date has explored mentoring programs on Canadian postsecondary institution websites or the kinds of mentoring programs, if any, that are present online. This study examined 96 unique Canadian postsecondary institutional websites and the online...

.... Questionnaires and semi-structured interviews were used to examine the nature and impact of the interdependent relationships that they had developed with other individuals and groups. A process of content analysis was used to identify and analyse patterns in the data. Findings Mentors have the most influence...

...Juanjo Mena; Chatree Faikhamta; Anthony Clarke Purpose The purpose of this study was to better understand the work of mentors or cooperating teachers (CTs) in Spain and Thailand, by comparing how mentors in both contexts conceive of their work in teacher education. Design/methodology/approach...

...William Walters; Daniel Bruce Robinson; Jared Walters Purpose Within teacher education, many experienced in-service teachers routinely mentor pre-service teachers during teaching practicums. Notwithstanding the benefits pre-service teachers are meant to experience from these mentor–protégé...

... physical education subject mentors and their associate teachers (ATs) during a one-year postgraduate programme. Design/methodology/approach Self-completion questionnaires and semi-structured interviews, with 11 ATs within a university ITE partnership, were used to explore ATs’ perceptions...

...Luke Jones; Steven Tones; Gethin Foulkes Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse feedback in the context of secondary initial teacher education (ITE) in England. More specifically, it aims to examine the feedback experiences of physical education (PE) subject mentors and their associate...

...Debra L. Franko; Jan Rinehart; Kathleen Kenney; Mary Loeffelholz; Barbara Guthrie; Paula Caligiuri Purpose – Mentoring of junior faculty members (i.e. professors) in higher education has been documented to be critical to their academic success which most often takes the form of receiving tenure...

...Vicky Duckworth; Bronwen Maxwell Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore how mentors can act as change agents for social justice. It examines mentors’ roles in initial teacher education in the lifelong learning sector (LLS) and how critical spaces can be opened up to promote a flow...

...Kate Thornton Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the educational leadership capacity of mentors working with new teachers and to identify factors that support and hinder the development of this leadership capacity. Design/methodology/approach – The author conducted...

...Frances Kochan; Susan Brondyk; Linda Searby Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe the complexity that underlies categorizing best practices in the field of mentoring. A further purpose is to propose a way to deal with this issue in order to begin to develop and identify research...