The contribution of mentoring in favor of pre-service teachers' personal and professional development
Abstract
A mentor guides, encourages and supports his/her mentee (protégé). A mentor can be found in many domains of social and professional life and education is one of them. Mentor constitutes an institution which was legislated for supporting newly hired teachers in Greece. Mentoring has been extensively studied with reference to the relationship between a mentor and a new teacher. However, the importance of mentoring in undergraduate studies cannot be underestimated. Pre-service teachers need a mentor in favor of their personal and educational development. During the academic year 2017-2018, 64 senior students of the Department of Primary Education of University of Patras were requested to reflect on the contribution of the laboratories of their Internship Program, by the time this was completed, in the context of the laboratories the evaluation, as a feedback to students’ participation. Through this research question and conducting qualitative data analysis, it was found that the supervisor of the laboratories greatly contributed to students’ personal and professional development. This contribution seemed to exist because the supervisor functioned as a mentor. Important aspects of his mentoring can be identified in students’ answers. The present study attempts to highlight the importance of mentoring in undergraduate studies as well as the importance of further investigation of this kind of mentoring. Suggestions for future research are also presented.
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Βλάχου Ε., & Μάνεσης Ν. (2019). The contribution of mentoring in favor of pre-service teachers’ personal and professional development. Hellenic Journal of Research in Education, 8(1), 77–91. https://doi.org/10.12681/hjre.20495
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