1st Edition

From Teaching to Mentoring Principles and Practice, Dialogue and Life in Adult Education

By Lee Herman, Alan Mandell Copyright 2004
240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

What is mentoring? What makes a teacher a mentor? From Teaching to Mentoring is an argument for the power, practicality and the basic good of a simple educational idea. The authors advocate a sound, comprehensive and lifelong education, shifting the emphasis of the learning process to the needs of the student. Whilst heeding traditional criteria of educational excellence, they ask for profound... Read more
1. What is Mentoring 2. The Principles of Mentoring and the Philosophy of Dialogue 3. Asking Questions 4. Waiting as Learning 5. Curriculum as Collaborative Planning and Learning 6. The Personal and the Academic: Dialogue as Cognitive Love 7. The Mentor as Learner: Habits of Work 8. Authenticity and Artifice: Mentoring in Virtual Reality 9. Access to and within the Academy Epilogue: From Teaching to Mentoring

Biography

Lee Herman is Mentor/Co-ordinator at the Empire State College, New York and is co-founder of the ESC Mentoring Institute.
Alan Mandell is Director of the Mentoring Institute at the Empire State College, New York.

'Extremely readable, and very highly recommended.' - Teacher Trainer