Mentoring and Dialogue
Mentoring and Dialogue
A reflective practitioner cannot grow on their own. Mentoring relationships and the skill of dialogue are how reflection turns from a private activity into shared development. This chapter sets out peer mentoring, the wider skill of mentoring, the kind of dialogue that supports it, the theories that explain why it works, and dialogue as a way to assess one’s own practice.
An equal partnership between colleagues, the structure that keeps it professional, and what research says about its effects
Trust, feedback, equality, and the mix of directive and developmental approaches across the mentoring journey
Perspective, networking, power, dependency: four issues that shape the quality of mentoring conversations
Why learning in practice and learning by observation underpin the mentoring relationship
Using professional conversation as evidence of growth, and the difference between written and dialogic reflection
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