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Name: Confessions of a Doctoral Supervisor: Valuing Interdependence Rooted in a Mentoring Creed
ID: m14517
Language: English (en)
Summary: Doctoral students are by their very nature social creatures, and those who experience an “organic union” with others have a far better chance of becoming productive, skilled researchers and lifelong learners. Many studies have found that “cooperative efforts produce higher achievement than do competitive or individualistic efforts” (Johnson & Johnson, 1998, p. 9; see also Johnson, 2003; Winston, 2006). In this confessional essay, I situate myself as a doctoral supervisor reflecting on the value of positive interdependent learning and, as a vehicle for this, research support groups. I have come to realize that my core values are situated, biased, and not generally representative of all of my students, a story I share in this essay. The personal–confessional genre is one in which “confessors” reveal their subjectivities and engage in reflective thinking in ways that potentially shape educational discourse (Bleakley, 2000; see also Bullough & Pinnegar, 2001). In keeping with social theorist C. Wright Mills’s conception of research (1959), I believe that “personal troubles” should not be presented merely as troubles but rather “understood in terms of public issues” (p. 226).
Subject: Social Sciences
Keywords: educational leadership, mentoring, NCPEA
Document Type: -//CNX//DTD CNXML 0.5 plus MathML//EN
License: Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 2.0)
Authors: Carol Mullen (cmullen@coedu.usf.edu)
Copyright Holders: Carol Mullen (cmullen@coedu.usf.edu)
Maintainers: Carol Mullen (cmullen@coedu.usf.edu), National Council of Professors of Educational Administration (tcreigh@vt.edu)
Version: 1.3 (history)
Created: May 10, 2007 9:45 am GMT-5
Revised: Jun 10, 2007 1:59 pm GMT-5

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