Mutuality, mystery, and mentorship in higher education

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 a...

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Main Author: Hinsdale, Mary Jo,
Other Authors: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Rotterdam, The Netherlands : SensePublishers, 2015.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xx, 172 pages).
Series: Mobility studies and education ; volume 4.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements.
  • Introduction.
  • Chapter I: Colonialism and the Academy (Colonialism, Coloniality, and Epistemic Privilege).
  • Chapter 2: The Lay of the Land: Contemporary Resonances of Colonialism (No Sense of Belonging: Not Our Space; An Alienating Environment; Tense Relationships; Of Messy Roles and Contested Spaces: Walls We May Not See).
  • Chapter 3: Education as a Colonizing Effort: A Bit of History ... (The Weight of History).
  • Chapter 4: Discourse and Hierarchies in Opportunity Programs (Discourse, Power, and Knowledge; Putting the Pieces Together: Mentoring in an Alienating Context).
  • Chapter 5: The Risks of Traditional Mentoring in a Troubled Context (Traditional Concepts of Mentoring; Traditional Concepts of Mentoring and Mentoring across Difference).
  • Chapter 6: Nurturing Trust and Mutuality: Protégés Speak Out (Marie and Dr. Manne; Abriella and Tori; Anali and Vivian; Revisiting Ethics).
  • Chapter 7: Moving toward Responsive Mentorship (Billy and David; The Rational Community).
  • Chapter 8: The Community of Strangers: Celebrating the Alterity of Protégés (Call and Response: Listening for the Community of Strangers; Call and Response: Entering Conversation).
  • Chapter 9: Mentoring for Transformation: Armando (Armando and Amani; The Risks of Recognition).
  • Chapter 10: Opening Possibilities for Responsiveness and Connection: Witnessing and Mentorship (A Commitment to Witness; Staying Connected; Kristie and Suzanne; An Ethic of Love).
  • Chapter 11: Power, Vigilance, Connection, Mystery: A Closer Look at Responsiveness.
  • Chapter 12: Toward Mtuality in Mentorship: Taking Mystery and Connection from Theory to Practice (Prelude to the Research Mentorship; Moving into the Research Process; Research Postlude; Transforming Disconnections).
  • Afterword.
  • References.