Mentoring : program development, relationships, and outcomes / / Michael I. Keel, editor

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910823403603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Nova Science Publishers, c2009
• ISBN: 1-60876-727-2
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (195 p.)
• Collana: Education in a competitive and globalizing world series
• Altri autori (Persone): KeelMichael I
• Disciplina: 658.3/124
• Soggetti: Mentoring; Mentoring in business; Employees - Coaching of
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Mentoring: Program Development, Relationships and Outcomes""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Analysis of Mentee Factors in Learning Minimal Access Surgery in Relation to Retroperitoneal Renal Surgery in Children""; ""Abstract""; ""Introduction""; ""Part 1 - Trainer's Perspective""; ""Acquisition of Surgical Skills""; ""Part 2 - Trainee's Perspective""; ""References""; ""Mentoring in Context: A Sociological Approach to the Study of Mentoring Relationships""; ""Abstract""; ""Introduction""; ""Life Course Perspective""; ""Formal Versus Informal Mentoring""; ""Selection Versus Causation""; ""Inequality""""Sociological Concepts""; ""Multiple Sources of Mentoring""; ""Social Network Analysis""; ""Mentoring in Comparative and Historical Perspective""; ""Conclusion""; ""References""; ""Developing the Spectrum of Supportive Relationships Including Mentoring""; ""Introduction""; ""Background""; ""When is Mentoring Really Mentoring?""; ""The Spectrum of Supportive Relationships""; ""Conclusion""; ""References""; ""Mid-career: The Proper Period for the Mentoring of Newly Appointed Principals""; ""Abstract""; ""Introduction""; ""The Career-Stage Approach""; ""Mid-career: The Most Suitable Stage for Taking on Mentorial Tasks""""Implications for Further Research on Mentoring""; ""References""; ""Effective Mentoring of Student Teachers: Attitudes, Characteristics and Practices of Successful Associate Teachers within a New Zealand ; Context""; ""Abstract""; ""Introduction""; ""Findings""; ""Conclusion""; ""References""; ""Author Note""; ""Faculty Mentoring at a Distance: Coming Together in the Virtual Community""; ""Abstract""; ""Introduction""; ""Mentoring in the Virtual Institution of Higher Education""; ""A Study of Virtual Mentoring""; ""Mentoring Practices""""References""; ""Supporting Future Teachers Learning to Teach Through an Integrated Model of Mentoring""; ""Abstract""; ""Introduction""; ""Teacher Education Reform of Taiwan""; ""Mushrooming of Integrated Research Projects on Mentoring""; ""An Integrated Model of Mentoring Program for Improving Quality of Internship""; ""The Process of Helping in Improving Mentors' Professional Teaching and Mentoring""; ""Mentors' and FTS' Views of the Integrated Model""; ""The Effect of the Integrated Model of Mentoring on FTS Performing on Teaching""; ""Discussion""; ""References""; ""The Interface of Mentoring with Management and Human Resource Development in Today's Organisations""""Introduction""; ""The Nature and Process of Mentoring""; ""Positioning the Mentoring Program as a Facilitative Component to the Training and Development Function""; ""Building Goodness of Fit Between Mentoring Programs and Management Style""; ""Aligning the Mentoring Process with the Bottom Line""; ""Mentoring in Tomorrow's Organisations""; ""References""; ""Peer-Mentoring and Disability: Current Applications and Future Directions""; ""Abstract""; ""Introduction""; ""Theoretical Perspective: The Ecological Analogy of Community Psychology and the Social-Ecological Model of Disability Studies""