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Models for Mentoring: Community of Peer Mentors
Type of Presentation
Concurrent
Session Abstract
Community of Peer Mentors is a new mentoring model that may further understandings of mentoring students. This session explores this and other mentoring models designed to enrich faculty/doctoral student relationships.
Target Audience
Adult, Continuing and Community College faculty members, higher education administrators and staff, graduate and doctoral students, community college educators, and anyone interested in mentoring as promoting learning in adult education contexts. The most likely participants are higher education faculty members interested in sharing their experiences in mentoring doctoral students. The session discussion will include participants’ experiences and successes in mentoring graduate students. Other participants may include higher education administrators who can contribute their ideas of how they help provide support for faculty and doctoral students in developing mentoring programs.
Learning Outcomes
During the session, learners will reflect upon their own experiences as both mentors and protégés in their graduate programs and through this discussion, further their understandings of mentoring models that may assist doctoral students prepare for academic careers. Participants will gain deeper knowledge concerning mentoring models and learn and reflect upon the newly proposed Community of Peer Mentors model.
Session Description
Enriched and empowered doctoral student/faculty mentoring relationships take many forms, such as individual mentoring dyads with one-on-one mentoring relationships, formally organized cohort mentoring programs, informal mentoring between faculty members and students, and peer mentoring among graduate students. The purpose of this session is to explore models and research regarding supportive mentoring relationships that can empower this learning. Wenger's (1998) research and literature concerning Communities of Practice (CoP) provides structure for a newly proposed model of mentoring, Community of Peer Mentors, which will be introduced in the session. Discussion of this model will further understandings of empowered student/student and student/faculty mentoring relationships. The session will conclude with participants sharing their experiences of mentoring, summarizing the ideas presented and suggesting directions for future research and practice in mentoring in higher educational institutions to enhance adult learning in higher education and other contexts.
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Thursday November 7
Primary Presenter
Dr. Catherine A Hansman, Cleveland State University
Work Title
Professor, Adult Learning & Development