Mentoring across differences in science education

Applying a brokering framework

Bibliographic Data

ID21392660
AuthorsChrista Haverly (0000-0003-0624-7656, Human Development and Social Policy, School of Education and Social Policy Northwestern University Evanston Illinois USA, corresponding author), B A Brown (0000-0001-8350-7998, Curriculum and Teacher Education, Graduate School of Education Stanford University Stanford California USA)
Year2022
Volume106
Issue5
Pages1135-1148
Publication date2022-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueScience Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0036-8326 • E-ISSN: 1098-237X
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/sce.21720
OpenAlexW4226215824
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited44

Mentoring relationships in academia have traditionally been described as a dyad between a mentor and a mentee. The mentor provides the mentee with both technical and psychosocial support to move toward obtaining their Ph.D. or gaining tenure and promotion. While there is an embedded assumption that mentoring is best suited when people of common background support each other, scholars must consider the impact of mentoring across differences. Given the lack of diversity among senior faculty members in science education, and given the increasing diversity represented among graduate students and early career scholars in science education, inevitably mentoring relationships will be formed across differences in identities (race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, ability). In our essay, we focus on two focal points: we explore those aspects of mentoring relationships that research suggests are critical to the success of relationships built across differences, foregrounding lessons science education researchers can take from this literature and arguing that it is too much to expect one individual mentor to provide to any given mentee. Next, we propose a brokering framework, leveraging technological advances, to work toward more transformative mentoring outcomes at scale, particularly when mentoring across differences

Diversity (politics) · Dyad · Foregrounding · Pedagogy · Political science · Promotion (chess) · Psychosocial · Scale (ratio) · Science education · Sociology · Transformative learning · Career Development and Diversity · Higher Education Research Studies · Mentoring and Academic Development · Psychology · Social Psychology