A memoir of co-mentoring: The “we” that is “me”
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Diamond, Colin
Griffith University Author(s)
Year published
2010
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The author's academic journey in learning to mentor and be co-mentored involved three rites of passage. In this reflective essay (invited paper), the author acknowledges his most influential co-mentors-former dissertation supervisees and long since colleagues-who helped form the "we" that is him. The first phase coincided with a constraining time in research and supervision. The author copublished only a few journal articles and mainly with one mentee. During his second stage in Toronto, Canada, he experienced an exponential increase in copublication. This was a natural extension of mutually beneficial working ...
View more >The author's academic journey in learning to mentor and be co-mentored involved three rites of passage. In this reflective essay (invited paper), the author acknowledges his most influential co-mentors-former dissertation supervisees and long since colleagues-who helped form the "we" that is him. The first phase coincided with a constraining time in research and supervision. The author copublished only a few journal articles and mainly with one mentee. During his second stage in Toronto, Canada, he experienced an exponential increase in copublication. This was a natural extension of mutually beneficial working relationships and successful doctoral defenses. Like a trusted friend, a mentor can guide his or her charges as they set out to discover and realize the potential within. The responsive form of learning in partnership enacted a version of collective action among equals. The author became a collaborative arts-based-educational researcher-mentor: a hyphenated collection of selves. Since having returned to Australia, he co-mentors early career academics seeking to publish and use writing as and for their professional development.
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View more >The author's academic journey in learning to mentor and be co-mentored involved three rites of passage. In this reflective essay (invited paper), the author acknowledges his most influential co-mentors-former dissertation supervisees and long since colleagues-who helped form the "we" that is him. The first phase coincided with a constraining time in research and supervision. The author copublished only a few journal articles and mainly with one mentee. During his second stage in Toronto, Canada, he experienced an exponential increase in copublication. This was a natural extension of mutually beneficial working relationships and successful doctoral defenses. Like a trusted friend, a mentor can guide his or her charges as they set out to discover and realize the potential within. The responsive form of learning in partnership enacted a version of collective action among equals. The author became a collaborative arts-based-educational researcher-mentor: a hyphenated collection of selves. Since having returned to Australia, he co-mentors early career academics seeking to publish and use writing as and for their professional development.
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Journal Title
Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning
Volume
18
Issue
2
Copyright Statement
© 2010 Routledge. This is an electronic version of an article published in Mentoring & Tutoring, Volume 18, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 199-209. Mentoring & Tutoring is available online at: http://www.informaworld.com with the open URL of your article.
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Education not elsewhere classified
Specialist Studies in Education
Other Education