What is it about?
This paper reviews and highlights key findings, themes and ideas from selected published academic papers on mentoring in education, with a specific focus on how mentoring can foster the professional learning and development of educators at all stages of their professional development
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Why is it important?
This paper provides information for those seeking to study and implement mentoring programmes. It focuses on mentoring for professional development of educators, identifies primary concepts in the literature reviewed and highlights new research areas in mentoring in education. Complex issues linked with mentoring are addressed, generating a critical systematization of mentoring research likely to have a lasting influence in the field.
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This paper is a great starting point for those who are trying to understand the impact mentoring may have in their professional learning and development. It is also very important for people who already have a good understanding of mentoring but who would like to have a more systematic insight into mentoring for professional learning and development.
Patricia Castanheira
University of Brighton
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This page is a summary of: Mentoring for educators’ professional learning and development, International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching in Education, December 2016, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/ijmce-10-2015-0030.
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