- Title
- From supervisor to mentor : Suggestive possibilities
- Creator
- Zeegers, Margaret; Smith, Patricia
- Date
- 2002
- Type
- Text; Conference paper
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/58687
- Identifier
- vital:1638
- Identifier
- https://www.aare.edu.au/data/publications/2002/zee02032.pdf
- Abstract
- An age characterised by the sort of 'manufactured uncertainty' identified by Giddens (1994) throws up for scrutiny any number of taken-for-granted assumptions regarding professional practice experience in the Education field. This paper explores the suggestive possibilities of discourses of pre-service teacher practica in terms of naming, positioning and examination of taken-for-granted aspects of teacher education as they present at a regional university in Victoria, Australia. The University of Ballarat has introduced a new P-10 teacher education course. In the second year of its progress, traditional aspects of paid supervisory and assessment roles of practising teachers in relation to student teachers have been the focus of attention and activity based on reconfigured foci on the roles of both practising teachers and undergraduate students. One such focus is on what Schön (1987) describes as 'indeterminate zones of practice', and the result has been a research program exploring those zones in terms of mentorship in relation to mandated supervision and assessment requirements for graduate registration. The project is action-research based, with teacher, student, academic and semi-academic/teacher roles considered in the light of suggestive possibilities of mentorship and reflective practices as transformative possibilities in relation to roles associated with these.; E1
- Publisher
- Brisbane : Australian Association for Research in Education
- Relation
- Paper presented at AARE 2002 Conference, Brisbane : 1st - 5th December, 2002
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- Copyright The Authors
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Tertiary Institution; Supervisor; Mentoring; Education; Relationships
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