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Hall, Kendra M.; Draper, Roni Jo; Smith, Leigh K.; Bullough, Robert V., Jr. – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2008
The purpose of this study was to shed light on mentor teachers' perceptions of their roles and responsibilities and to contrast their understandings with a normative view of mentoring (Goldsberry, 1998; Hawkey, 1997). We hypothesized that the mentor teachers' perceptions would likely differ from established conceptions of this construct, a…
Descriptors: Mentors, Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Attitudes, Role Perception
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Bullough, Robert V., Jr.; Draper, Roni Jo – Journal of Teacher Education, 2004
Mentoring is often portrayed as an unqualified good. Teacher educators claim that mentoring holds promise for beginning teacher development, increased retention of novice teachers, and mentor-teacher improvement. Drawing on positioning theory, this study describes negotiation of power and position in a failed triad composed of a public school…
Descriptors: Teacher Interns, Teacher Educators, Mentors, Beginning Teachers