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Educative mentoring: Promoting reform‐based science teaching through mentoring relationships
Author(s) -
Bradbury Leslie Upson
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
science education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.209
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1098-237X
pISSN - 0036-8326
DOI - 10.1002/sce.20393
Subject(s) - pedagogy , meaning (existential) , professional development , teacher education , psychology , faculty development , science education , teacher preparation , mathematics education , psychotherapist
Educative mentoring is an idea developed by Feiman‐Nemser [Feiman‐Nemser, S. (1998). Teachers as teacher educators. European Journal of Teacher Education , 21(1), 63–74; (2001). Helping novices learn to teach: Lessons from an exemplary support teacher. Journal of Teacher Education , 52(1), 17–30] to reflect current conceptions of mentoring that emphasize novices learning from their practice with the assistance of a mentor teacher. Educative mentoring seeks to meet the immediate needs of novice teachers while also focusing on long‐term goals for professional development. This paper discusses the meaning of educative mentoring, describes key behaviors of educative mentors, outlines important components for the professional development of mentors, and proposes areas for further research with a specific emphasis on the needs of beginning science teachers. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Sci Ed 94: 1049–1071, 2010