Description
Book SynopsisGood Mentoring offers an in-depth analysis of the way mentors transmit not only knowledge and skills but the guiding values that support good work and social responsibility. The book clearly shows how these values are passed along to those they guide.
Trade Review“Having a mentor can be a great experience or it can be disappointing. As advisors, we know why it is important that students have a great mentoring experience, but often how to cultivate a great experience is not addressed. Jeanne Nakamura and David Shernoff, in their new book
Good Mentoring, strive to define good mentoring and offer details on how it can be achieved.
To reach this goal, the authors conducted a research study to determine the practices that make mentors effective and what kind of relationships support good mentoring. Though the authors conducted their research in the field of science, the results can be applied to many fields.
Readers…will find good suggestions for anyone striving to become a good mentor.”
—NACADA Journal, Issue 30(1) (Spring 2010)
Table of ContentsThe Authors ix
Foreword xi
Preface xvii
Acknowledgments xxv
1. Why Mentoring? 1
Part One: Three Examples of Good Mentoring 29
2. The Naturalist 33
3. The Physician-Scientist 63
4. The Moralist 91
Part Two: How Good Mentoring Works 119
5. Values, Practices, and Knowledge Through the Generations 121
6. How Values, Practices, and Knowledge Are Transmitted 155
7. Supportive Relationships as the Context for Intergenerational Influence 187
Part Three: Promoting Good Mentoring 219
8. What Have We Learned? 221
9. Where Do We Go from Here? 251
Appendix A: Data Collection, Coding, and Analyses 269
Appendix B: Science Apprenticeship Study—G2 and G3
Interview Questions 275
Appendix C: Global Code Sheet 285
References 289
Index 297
