- Title
- Rewriting the Script of Mentoring Pre-Service Teachers in Third Space: Exploring Tensions of Loyalty, Obligation and Advocacy
- Creator
- McDonough, Sharon
- Date
- 2014
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/72227
- Identifier
- vital:6876
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1080/17425964.2014.949658
- Identifier
- ISSN:1742-5964
- Abstract
- Supporting pre-service teachers as they develop their understandings of teaching, learning and their identities as teachers is complex and multi-faceted work. I draw on self-study to explore my work in a new partnership model between a school in Victoria, Australia and a regional university. During 2013, I worked in both contexts and carried out the dual roles of teacher educator and secondary teacher. In this partnership, I set out to create a third space for mentoring and supporting pre-service teachers, making connections between their on-campus work and their developing practice in schools. Throughout the self-study, I kept field notes and a reflective journal. In analysing these, I identified the tensions and challenges of working in this space and in articulating my pedagogy as a university mentor. I experienced uncomfortable moments of learning, where I faced tensions related to issues of obligation, loyalty and advocacy. I argue that engaging in processes of translation and mediation enables university mentors to articulate a pedagogy of mentoring and, in so doing, to rewrite the script of mentoring for pre-service and supervising teachers.; C1
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Relation
- Studying Teacher Education Vol. 10, no. 3 (September 2014), p. 210-221
- Rights
- © Informa UK Limited, an Informa Group Company.
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1303 Specialist Studies In Education; Mentoring; Pre-service teacher education; Professional experience placements; Third space
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