Mutuality, Mystery, and Mentorship in Higher Education / by Mary Jo Hinsdale.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hinsdale, Mary Jo, author.

Series:

Mobility Studies and Education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education.

Local Subjects:

Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (184 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2015.

Place of Publication:

Rotterdam : SensePublishers : Imprint: SensePublishers, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is for higher education faculty and staff who wish to deepen their approach to mentoring all students, but it is especially concerned with “outsider” students – those who come from groups that were long excluded from higher education, and who have been marginalized and minoritized by society and academia. Mentoring is difficult work for an abundance of reasons, and – given higher education’s troubled history of exclusion, as well as a contemporary context fraught with social and power imbalances – it can be especially challenging when the mentorship takes place across dimensions of difference such as social class, race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender, or ability. Mutuality, Mystery, and Mentorship in Higher Education examines the seemingly spontaneous and serendipitous connection between mentor and protégé, and points to a new vision of mentorship based on a deep sense of reciprocity between the two. Hinsdale proposes that if more mentors take a responsive, decolonizing approach to their work across difference, then the promise of social and class mobility through education might be realized for more of our students and the tide might begin to turn toward an increasingly inclusive, intellectually open academy.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Colonialism and the Academy

The Lay of the Land

Education as a Colonizing Effort

Discourse and Hierarchies in Opportunity Programs

The Risks of Traditional Mentoring in a Troubled Context

Nurturing Trust and Mutuality

Moving Toward Responsive Mentorship

The Community of Strangers

Mentoring for Transformation

Opening Possibilities for Responsiveness and Connection

Power, Vigilance, Connection, Mystery

Toward Mutuality in Mentorship

Afterword

References.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9789462099951

9462099952

OCLC:

905650005