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Deconstructing Power and Positionality: Innovative Practices for Mentoring Relationships
Type of Presentation
Shared
Session Abstract
Collaboration between teacher and student is highlighted as a typical feature in adult education. Yet, rarely is mentoring built into curricula and beyond. This session chronicles the relationship built among two graduate students and their mentor over the past seven years. It invites session participants to analyze key principles of mentoring among adults in HE settings.
Target Audience
Graduate students
Professors/Instructors
Counselors
Administrators
Researchers
Learning Outcomes
Specific approaches, strategies, and techniques of "mentoring" are presented as a means of teaching in adult education programs in graduate education programs. The long-term relationship between the presenters offers insights and tips for practical application of this type of mentoring/teaching that can be accomplished while navigating rigid systems and structures.
Session participants will be able to:
- Identify their own definition of "mentoring"
- Analyze possibilities for innovations in AE program design
- Integrate AE learning principles into mentoring and mentoring principles into instruction
- Determine avenues of student advocacy and support
- Build their professional network
Session Description
This session addresses key points and techniques related to:
- Mentoring occurs between peers when encouraged from the instructor
- Mentoring must be built into curriculum if it is to be universally effective rather than left to chance
- Mentoring is civic engagement
- Demystifying mentoring
- Mentoring occurs inside and outside of the classroom
- Mentoring provides mutual support
- Mentoring can create an atmosphere where the students learns in spite of the system (part of demystifying is the advising process)
- Mentoring can facilitate flexibility, again in spite of the rigid infrastructures in colleges
- Mentoring is a benefit to the student and in the long run a benefit to the faculty since it builds confidence and independence
- Mentoring should be transparent and altruistic--not an opportunity to dismiss colleagues or garner favor
- Mentoring is sometimes very difficult and does not help to make friends...
Efforts are made to try to schedule sessions on the day preferred by the Primary Presenter, though this cannot be guaranteed. Please check your preference.
No preference
Primary Presenter
Ms Virginia I Heaven, MA, Columbia College Chicago
Work Title
Assistant Professor
Additional Presenters: Enters In Order.
Vincent Wiggins, City Colleges of Chicago
Work Title
Coordinator
Dr. Gabriele Strohschen, DePaul University
Work Title
Associate Professor