Inside the mentors' experience : Using poetic representation to examine the tensions of mentoring pre-service teachers
- Authors: McDonough, Sharon
- Date: 2018
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Australian Journal of Teacher Education Vol. 43, no. 10 (2018), p. 98-115
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- Description: The supervision and mentoring of pre-service teachers during professional experience is complex work that requires a range of skills and capacities. Professional development for this work has traditionally been limited, however, and mentor teachers report experiencing tensions in their work stemming from their roles as both supporter and assessor of pre-service teachers. Despite the central role that mentors play in professional experience, their voices are underrepresented in the literature. In this paper, I draw on interview data to examine teachers' experiences as mentors and the tensions they experience. I use poetic representation to illuminate the tensions and emotions of mentoring and present seven poems that provide insight into these tensions. I argue that poetic representation of interview data provides an opportunity to connect with the experience of being a mentor and offer suggestions for teacher educators to work collaboratively with mentor teachers to explore the dimensions of their role.
If not now, then when? Wellbeing and wholeheartedness in education
- Authors: Lemon, Narelle , McDonough, Sharon
- Date: 2021
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Educational Forum Vol. 85, no. 3 (2021), p. 317-335
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- Description: The COVID-19 pandemic, natural disasters, and political and social movements have required each of us to pause. Collectively they signal a unique moment in our history, and we argue that they provide us with an opportunity to consider what matters most as we move forward. Using poetic representation and Brené Brown’s guideposts for wholehearted living as a framework, we offer a series of provocation for readers to consider the role of wholeheartedness and wellbeing in education. © 2021 Kappa Delta Pi.