
Mentoring for Learning
""Climbing the Mountain""
Brill (Publisher)
Published on 1. January 2015
Book
Hardback
362 pages
978-94-6300-057-4 (ISBN)
Description
No doubt, students appreciate the talks they have with their mentors but do they learn from it as well? Conversations can be comforting or confronting, but above all they need to be helpful in the attainment of a higher level of proficiency and understanding. Are you, as a mentor, up to the task of "climbing the mountain"; that is, to attain the goals you have set with your students and create a truly learning conversation?
Conversations are a prime tool in a mentoring relationship. Keeping track of the flow and direction of a conversation is a crucial element in mentor professionalism and a condition to ascertain learning will happen. Mentoring for Learning: "Climbing the Mountain" concentrates on the need to get grip on what happens during a conversation between a mentor and a mentee to enable both mentor and mentee to understand the nature and route of their talks.
The book provides tools for the professional development of mentors to conduct learning conversations.
Conversations are a prime tool in a mentoring relationship. Keeping track of the flow and direction of a conversation is a crucial element in mentor professionalism and a condition to ascertain learning will happen. Mentoring for Learning: "Climbing the Mountain" concentrates on the need to get grip on what happens during a conversation between a mentor and a mentee to enable both mentor and mentee to understand the nature and route of their talks.
The book provides tools for the professional development of mentors to conduct learning conversations.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
685 gr
ISBN-13
978-94-6300-057-4 (9789463000574)
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