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Mutuality, Mystery, and Mentorship in Higher Education

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Authors:
  1. Mary Jo Hinsdale

    1. Westminster College, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

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  • Readers of this book on mentoring won’t find a guidebook with easy to fulfill checklists, but rather one that draws on rich and varied theory to propose a mentoring relationship that is not only egalitarian, reciprocal, and open, but transformative of an institution –higher education – that has traditionally been exclusionary.

Part of the book series: Mobility Studies and Education (MBSE)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Colonialism and the Academy

    • Mary Jo Hinsdale
    Pages 1-11

  3. The Lay of the Land

    • Mary Jo Hinsdale
    Pages 13-24

  4. Education as a Colonizing Effort

    • Mary Jo Hinsdale
    Pages 25-35

  5. Discourse and Hierarchies in Opportunity Programs

    • Mary Jo Hinsdale
    Pages 37-43

  6. The Risks of Traditional Mentoring in a Troubled Context

    • Mary Jo Hinsdale
    Pages 45-61

  7. Nurturing Trust and Mutuality

    • Mary Jo Hinsdale
    Pages 63-77

  8. Moving Toward Responsive Mentorship

    • Mary Jo Hinsdale
    Pages 79-93

  9. The Community of Strangers

    • Mary Jo Hinsdale
    Pages 95-108

  10. Mentoring for Transformation

    • Mary Jo Hinsdale
    Pages 109-119

  11. Opening Possibilities for Responsiveness and Connection

    • Mary Jo Hinsdale
    Pages 121-135

  12. Power, Vigilance, Connection, Mystery

    • Mary Jo Hinsdale
    Pages 137-142

  13. Toward Mutuality in Mentorship

    • Mary Jo Hinsdale
    Pages 143-163

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 165-172
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About this book

This book is for higher education faculty and staff who wish to deepen their approach to mentoring all students, but it is especially concerned with “outsider” students – those who come from groups that were long excluded from higher education, and who have been marginalized and minoritized by society and academia. Mentoring is difficult work for an abundance of reasons, and – given higher education’s troubled history of exclusion, as well as a contemporary context fraught with social and power imbalances – it can be especially challenging when the mentorship takes place across dimensions of difference such as social class, race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender, or ability. Mutuality, Mystery, and Mentorship in Higher Education examines the seemingly spontaneous and serendipitous connection between mentor and protégé, and points to a new vision of mentorship based on a deep sense of reciprocity between the two. Hinsdale proposes that if more mentors take a responsive, decolonizing approach to their work across difference, then the promise of social and class mobility through education might be realized for more of our students and the tide might begin to turn toward an increasingly inclusive, intellectually open academy.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Westminster College, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

    Mary Jo Hinsdale

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Mutuality, Mystery, and Mentorship in Higher Education

  • Authors: Mary Jo Hinsdale

  • Series Title: Mobility Studies and Education

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-995-1

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2015

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6209-995-1Published: 17 March 2015

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 172

  • Topics: Education, general

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