There is a dearth of nursing faculty with the knowledge and expertise to effectively educate nurses. The 2013 special survey on vacant faculty positions by the American Association of Colleges of ...Nursing (AACN) reported 1358 unfilled openings (American Association of Colleges of Nursing, 2014). Adding additional complexity to the need for nursing faculty with the requisite skill set is the pervasive use of technology in face-to-face and distance education. Nursing faculty must broaden their educational skillset to include technological tools that enhance their role as facilitator, mentor, and knowledge resource for students and their learning styles, e.g., learning management systems, podcasting, simulation, gaming, virtual worlds, Web 2.0 information-sharing, clickers, and educational applications and programs (Mastrian et al., 2011). 20 references
PurposeThe purpose of this study was to better understand the work of mentors or cooperating teachers (CTs) in Spain and Thailand, by comparing how mentors in both contexts conceive of their work in ...teacher education.Design/methodology/approachA comparative study based on a crossnational research (CNR) approach was used. An internationally validated instrument, the Mentoring Profile Inventory (MPI), was given to 171 Spanish and 170 Thai CTs, and an analysis using t tests and constant comparative methods was conducted.FindingsThe main results indicate that the Spanish cohort reported being significantly more challenged than their Thai counterparts in working with preservice teachers (PSTs). Both groups indicated a similar degree of motivation. The comparative analysis revealed that the Thai CTs emphasized the importance of ethics in teaching and being a role model for PSTs, whereas the Spanish CTs emphasized the need for strong interpersonal relationships as being central to successful mentoring.Research limitations/implicationsUnderstanding mentors' challenges and motivations can form the basis for reflecting upon the essential components of teacher preparation in both contexts. Furthermore, comparative cross-context analyses, as demonstrated in this paper, are vital for the identification of important differences that might otherwise remain invisible or unrecognized from a single-context perspective.Originality/valueThe study is original in its focus in that it offers insights that help better understand attitudes and performance within and across contexts – in this case, a European and an Asian country – using a common metric, the MPI. This study serves as an exemplar for other comparison studies for countries of mentors.
Nearly 30% of pregnant women in South Africa are estimated to be HIV seropositive, yet adherence to guidelines for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) is often low. A pilot ...study was developed to see whether PMTCT services provided by the South African Government could be enhanced by the Mamekhaya program, a combination of the mothers2mothers peer-mentoring program and a culturally adapted cognitive-behavioral intervention (CBI) from the USA. Pregnant women attending two maternity clinics offering PMTCT in Gugulethu and Vanguard Townships, Cape Town, South Africa, were invited to participate in the study. Women at the intervention site (Gugulethu) received the support of a mentor mother and also attended an eight-session Mamekhaya CBI. At the control site (Vanguard), women received standard services provided by midwives and counselors. Baseline assessments were completed by all participants at enrollment (n=160), and follow-ups were completed six months later by 44% of participants. Self-reports of adherence to PMTCT practices were high across both sites (90% or more engaging in the core practices). Women at the Mamekhaya site showed significantly greater improvement in establishing social support and reducing depression scores than women at the control site. Mamekhaya participants also showed trends for better attendance at follow-up medical visits, and greater improvements in positive coping. The greatest effect of the Mamekhaya program was to increase HIV knowledge scores, particularly with regard to understanding the meaning and importance of viral load and CD4 test results. Results from this pilot study show promise that augmenting basic PMTCT services with mentor mothers and a culturally adapted CBI can be effective in conveying information and in improving the emotional outlook and hopefulness of HIV-positive pregnant women in South Africa.
Mentoring of junior faculty members continues to be a widespread need in academic pharmacy in both new programs and established schools. The American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) Joint ...Council Task Force on Mentoring was charged with gathering information from member colleges and schools and from the literature to determine best practices that could be shared with the academy. The task force summarized their findings regarding the needs and responsibilities for mentors and protégés at all faculty levels; what mentoring pieces are in existence, which need improvement, and which need to be created; and how effective mentoring is defined and could be measured. Based on these findings, the task force developed several recommendations as well as the PAIRS Faculty Mentorship Checklist. Academic institutions can benefit from the checklist whether they are planning to implement a faculty mentorship program or are interested in modifying existing programs.
Pre-service teachers encounter many different mentor teachers during the teaching practicum process. While some teachers give sufficient coverage to early childhood science education, some do not. ...This research aimed to explain effective mentoring attributes and practices of the mentors which preferred by pre-service pre-school teachers during science teaching activities throughout the teaching practice lessons. The study was designed in line with the Q-methodology. The participants of the study were 39 pre-service teachers. Quantitative data were collected with the Q measurement tool developed by the researchers to describe the mentoring attributes and practices in science teaching. In addition, qualitative data were collected and analyzed through an open-ended questionnaire. The results obtained in the study revealed that pre-service pre-school teachers preferred the mentoring attributes and practices, in which they could get support at the point of personal development in science teaching. In addition, it was found that the same pre-service teachers were less likely to prefer the mentor who gave feedback and tried to be a role model while science teaching.
The Intentional Mentor Johnson, W. Brad
Professional psychology, research and practice,
02/2002, Letnik:
33, Številka:
1
Journal Article
Recenzirano
How
can faculty in professional psychology programs become more intentional and
effective mentors? Many psychology graduate students are never mentored,
and very few psychologists have ever received ...training in the practice of
mentoring. This article briefly summarizes the nature of mentoring, the
prevalence of mentoring in psychology, primary obstacles to mentoring, and
some ethical concerns unique to mentoring. The article provides several
strategies to enhance mentoring and guidelines for the profession,
departments of psychology, and individual psychologists who serve as
mentors. This article is designed to help readers take a more deliberate
approach to the practice of mentoring.
This article presents the results of a critical in-depth phenomenological interviewing (CIPI) method conducted with minoritized faculty (N = 6) in the discipline of Counselor Education at ...predominantly White research-intensive institutions. The purpose of the investigation was to ascertain strategies used by these faculty when confronting institutional forms of oppression. After conducting a connective and generative analysis of full phenomenological profiles resulting from CIPI, 5 distinct strategies emerged: (a) sustained service, (b) self-love, (c) mentoring as resistance, (d) talking back, and (e) subversive (re)readings. These strategies are viewed through a critical race feminist theoretical lens and discussed in connection to existing literature. Participants' strategies hold unique implications for institutional response to enduring forms of oppression, developments in doctoral training and professional development, and innovative approaches to mentorship programs.
In the current article, the author offers a contribution to the special issue honoring Everett L. Worthington Jr. After giving a brief overview of theory on expertise development and deliberate ...practice, the author illustrates some of the ways that Dr. Worthington integrated these ideas into his mentoring approach and helped students or early career faculty develop research programs in the area of religion/spirituality. This investment was important, because he brought together a stronger synergy between the interest in positive psychology and work integrating spirituality into clinical practice.
I am both humbled and honored to be able to write about Everett L. Worthington Jr., a mentor, role model, and inspiration for myself and others. I met Ev over 20 years ago, and although I did not ...know it at the time, he would become one of the single most influential figures in my academic life. Ev is the very definition of a mentor. His work influenced my earliest writing on forgiveness and health, and his books, articles, presentations, sermons, and so forth have been an important part of my reading for years. Most importantly, his development of the concept of a stress-and-coping model of forgiveness opened the door for me to develop a line of work examining forgiveness and health. Added to this, Ev's REACH Forgiveness method allowed me to not only document the benefits of forgiveness but also help promote these benefits. I continue to believe that both forgiveness and self-forgiveness, as well as potentially other dimensions of forgiveness such as divine forgiveness, are powerful coping mechanisms that can and do have direct and indirect connections to health, well-being, and overall flourishing. I have been fortunate to have Ev as a mentor, colleague, and companion on this journey, and I am eager for our next collaborations. The science of forgiveness, while steadily growing, remains an understudied area of much promise for benefiting the human condition. Ev's leadership and contributions will no doubt continue to be the tip-of-the-spear of investigation in these areas.
The study explores how internal coaches working in the HE sector manage the interplay of individual change and organisational change, and the implications for undertaking a change agency role during ...the coaching process. It is a qualitative study using constructivist grounded theory. The context for the research is Higher Education institutions operating internal coaching and mentoring services. The research offers a conceptual framework for how internal coaching supports organisational change, integrating three models constructed from the findings: the wayfaring organisational change model, the coach as change mediator model, and the coaching fulcrum model.
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