Salient practices of award-winning undergraduate research mentors - balancing freedom and control to achieve excellence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4903335 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Helen Walkington (0000-0003-2101-472X, Department of Social Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK, corresponding author), Karen A Stewart (0000-0002-9624-9956, Global Health and Cultural Anthropology, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA), E E Hall (0000-0002-3590-5390, Elon University), Elizabeth Ackley (Health and Human Performance, Roanoke College, Salem, VA, USA), Jenny Olin Shanahan (0000-0003-2615-5804, Bridgewater State University) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 1519-1532 |
| Publication date | 2020-07-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Higher Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0307-5079 • E-ISSN: 1470-174X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03075079.2019.1637838 |
| OpenAlex | W2956136427 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 17 |
This paper contributes to research on teaching excellence by extending the current body of literature pertaining to mentoring pedagogies in undergraduate research settings across diverse social, institutional and disciplinary contexts. Our data comes from in-depth interviews with 32 international faculty who have received excellence awards for undergraduate research mentoring. The data reveal a freedom - control dialectic, illuminating the ways in which expert mentors negotiate the desire to create opportunities for students to experience freedom and creativity in research, yet maintain control over the topic, quality and outcomes. The research findings reveal a defining characteristic of award-winning mentors as an ability to establish and sustain a sense of challenge, while maintaining meaningful engagement and a sense of achievement amongst students. The findings show the importance of tailoring practice to the needs of particular student groups, and there are implications for institutional resourcing, as well as mentor training and development
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| Unique citing works | 9 |
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| Citations per year | 2,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |