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Mentors, tormentors, and no mentors: mentoring scientists
Laura Gail LunsfordA psychosocial, developmental perspective was used to examine the mentoring experiences of scientists. Little is known about the timing of when mentors first appear, the quality…
Mentors as educational leaders and change agents
Kate ThorntonThe purpose of this paper is to explore the educational leadership capacity of mentors working with new teachers and to identify factors that support and hinder the development of…
Mentorship in a Japanese graduate school: learning through apprenticeship
Mitsuyo Sakamoto, Lumi TamanyuThe purpose of this study is to investigate a four-year mentorship program for Japanese graduate students at a private university in Tokyo, Japan. The following research questions…
National principal mentoring: does it achieve its purpose?
Kathleen Sciarappa, Christine Y. Mason– The purpose of this paper is to examine the perceived efficacy of a US-based national principal mentor training program.
Coaching from the coaches’ perspective: a process-oriented focus
Davide Celoria, David Hemphill– The purpose of this paper is to examine the practice of new principal coaching in schools from the coaches’ perspective.
Low-inference transcripts in peer coaching: a promising tool for school improvement
Rosa L. Rivera-McCutchen, Nell Scharff PaneroThe purpose of this paper is to examine highly detailed “low-inference” transcripts (LITs) of peer coaching conversations, drawn from two public US high schools located in New…
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