Mentoring across differences in science education

Applying a brokering framework

Datos Bibliográficos

ID21392660
AutoresChrista Haverly (0000-0003-0624-7656, Human Development and Social Policy, School of Education and Social Policy Northwestern University Evanston Illinois USA, autor de correspondencia), B A Brown (0000-0001-8350-7998, Curriculum and Teacher Education, Graduate School of Education Stanford University Stanford California USA)
Año2022
Volumen106
Número5
Páginas1135-1148
Fecha de publicación2022-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaScience Education (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0036-8326 • E-ISSN: 1098-237X
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/sce.21720
OpenAlexW4226215824
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas44

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