W Brad Johnson

On Being a Mentor

A Guide for Higher Education Faculty

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The definitive guide for higher education faculty who wish to excel as mentors to students and faculty, this practical, research based guide features cases, strategies, and best practices. Updated throughout, this accessible guide offers advice on managing problem mentorships and measuring outcomes. Research-based advice on the rules of engagement for mentoring, mentor functions, qualities of good mentors, and methods for forming and managing student-faculty relationships is provided along with the common mentoring relationship phases, tips on mentoring specific populations, and recommendations on how to foster an academic culture of mentoring.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9781138892262
• ISBN-10: 1138892262
• Artikelnr.: 43023424

Autorenporträt

W. Brad Johnson is professor of psychology at the U.S. Naval Academy and a Faculty Associate at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Johnson is invited to give mentoring workshops for university faculty around the globe.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: On Mentoring 1. Why Mentoring Matters 2. The Mentoring Relationship
Continuum 3. Exemplary Mentoring in Academe: A Glimpse Inside Part II: On
Being a Mentor 4. Foundational Mentoring Competencies: Who Mentors Are 5.
Functional Mentoring Competencies: What Mentors Do 6. Beginning a Mentoring
Relationship 7. The Seasons of Mentorship: Common Relationship Phases 8.
The Ethical Mentor: Doing No Harm Part III: On Mentoring Specific Groups
9. Mentoring Undergraduates 10. Mentoring Graduate Students 11. Mentoring
Junior Faculty 12. Mentoring and Gender 13. Mentoring Across Race Part IV:
Managing Mentorships 14. Diagnosis and Management of Mentorship Dysfunction
15. Assessing Mentoring Outcomes 16. Recommendations for Academic Leaders:
What Deans and Department Chairs Can "Do"