Mullen (University of South Florida) frames the essential philosophical, historical, and epistemological foundations of mentoring, and explores the potential value of mentor relationships in public school and college teaching programs.
The Leadership Identity Journey takes readers on a breathtaking, all-consuming, transformative journey. The invitation is to think of your life as a journey that follows a mythic path. By doing so, new possibilities emerge for thinking about leadership identity and preparation, as well as artistic research and the education field. The perspectives described in this book are supported by school leaders' insights into powerful iconic photographs relative to the five mythic life phases: the human condition, trials in life, human triumph, human transformation, and human crossing, with the addition of leadership as a dimension of the life-journey model. The authors conducted their study using selected photographs framed by the universal mythic framework inspired by mythologist Joseph Campbell.
Breaking the Circle of One offers lively, personal accounts of graduate students’ and professors’ experiences of mentorship within universities and schools. This self-study writing group formed in an effort to provide and receive support. The circle of one the group signifies remained open to others and became integrated within multiple communities and represents the experience of isolation, competition, and abandonment faced by many in education. The chapters, diverse in their stories and points of view, redefine mentoring relationships and structures. Contributors engage their circular model of education as a framework for analysis. They also view their model as representative of a process throughout life that brings mentors and mentees close together at times, and further away at other times. This book is organized around four the actual teaching of preservice student teachers; the use of innovative approaches to mentoring within established university systems; the interpersonal design of school-university partnership programs; and the search for new patterns of mentoring within teacher education.
Designed for graduate students, this resource provides practical strategies and opportunities to enhance the mentoring experience. It emphasizes the importance of mentorship in academic and professional development, offering insights on how to cultivate productive relationships with mentors. The book aims to empower students to navigate their educational journeys successfully by leveraging mentorship effectively.
Exploring the intersection of creativity and transnational education, this book delves into diverse educational cultures and their approaches to fostering innovation. It examines how different cultural contexts shape creative practices and educational outcomes, highlighting case studies and theoretical frameworks. Through its multidisciplinary perspective, the work aims to enrich understanding of creativity in global education, offering insights for educators and policymakers on enhancing creative potential across various cultural settings.
Translating a Graduate Degree into a Career in Academia
Graduate school life is explored from the perspectives of both students and professors in this insightful guide. It offers practical advice for students on how to navigate their academic journey and succeed in their studies. Additionally, it prepares them for a future career in academia, providing valuable insights into the transition from student to professor.
Education and Accountability in China analyses the staggering effects that China s single-minded focus on accountability has had on the creativity and critical thinking skills of its students. By examining this phenomenon within the context of an increasingly competitive and globalized educational landscape, it provides researchers in other countries with a dynamic portrait of a country that has at turns served as both a cautionary tale and a successful example to emulate. Discourse-based and research-driven, it discusses the role of China s high-stakes, policy-oriented culture in fostering a testing-dominated education system, describes those examples of creativity that do exist, and reflects on how to encourage creative, diverse perspectives in education around the world."
Fire & Ice presents the educational inquiry process to school practitioners and aspiring leaders. The context for this study is unusual because it addresses inquiry learning at both the master's and doctoral level and within group settings. The picture that emerges illustrates ways for mentors to engage graduate students in learning, writing, and research through collaborative structures, with an emphasis on learning communities as the primary vehicle for growth and success. In the book, graduate students have served as research participants, focus group members, and survey respondents in their dual role as peer mentor. Because graduate education is being challenged to meet the changing needs of the twenty-first century, the influence of the professions on academic degrees has meant that students must develop as scholar practitioners instead of strictly intellectual academics. Metaphorically, the fire (possibility, desire, and content) and ice (restraint, structure, and form) of scholarly inquiry is used as a literary device to capture what it might mean for students to perform inquiry.