Modeling Mentoring Across Race/Ethnicity and Gender: Practices to Cultivate the Next Generation of Diverse Faculty - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1579224881 ISBN 13: 9781579224882

Publisher: Stylus Publishing, 2014

Synopsis

While mentorship has been shown to be critical in helping graduate students persist and complete their studies, and enter upon and succeed in their academic careers, the under-representation of faculty of color and women in higher education greatly reduces the opportunities for graduate students from these selfsame groups to find mentors of their race, ethnicity or gender.

Recognizing that mentoring across gender, race and ethnicity inserts levels of complexity to this important process, this book both fills a major gap in the literature and provides an in-depth look at successful mentorships between senior white and under-represented scholars and emerging women scholars and scholars of color.

Following a comprehensive review of the literature, this book presents chapters written by scholars who share in-depth descriptions of their cross-gender and/or cross-race/ethnicity mentoring relationships. Each article is co-authored by mentors who are established senior scholars and their former protégés with whom they have continuing collegial relationships. Their descriptions provide rich insights into the importance of these relationships, and for developing the academic pipeline for women scholars and scholars of color.

Drawing on a comparative analysis of the literature and of the narrative chapters, the editors conclude by identifying the key characteristics and pathways for developing successful mentoring relationships across race, ethnicity or gender, and by offering recommendations for institutional policy and individual mentoring practice. For administrators and faculty concerned about diversity in graduate programs and academic departments, they offer clear models of how to nurture the productive scholars and teachers needed for tomorrow’s demographic of students; for under-represented students, they offer compelling narratives about the rewards and challenges of good mentorship to inform their expectations and the relationships they will develop as protégés.

About this title

Review:

"Two of the most fundamental questions about mentoring are: (1) 'How do we know that mentoring makes a difference? and, (2) What does effective mentoring look like or feel like?

This is a book that speaks to these questions and examines them through phenomenology - from the lens of those who enter, experience, and benefit directly from mentoring relationships. If you are a graduate student, faculty member, college or university administrator, and an aspiring academic, this book will speak to you!

There are books on mentoring and mentoring relationships, yet few that take a look at the relationship across gender, race, and ethnicity, as well as from other lenses and experiences such as what you will encounter here. This book has the potential to influence mentoring practice, processes, and policies by bringing issues that many of us still find uncomfortable talking about in academia - the micro and macro-aggressions associated with the experiences of women and faculty of color in higher education - into focus. We espouse that cultivating the next generation of academics of color is important and a reality for countless reasons; however; we often underestimate the impact an effective mentoring relationship can have on that generation. Mentoring Across Race/Ethnicity and Gender is insightful and informative and can help us to experience mentoring relationships in deeper and impactful ways to bridge the gender, social, and cultural divide."--Christine A. Stanley, Vice President and Associate Provost for Diversity

About the Author:

Caroline Sotello Viernes Turner is a Professor in the Division of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Lincoln Professor of Ethics and Education, and Doctoral Program Director for Higher and Postsecondary Education at Arizona State University. Recognizing her exemplary scholarship, Turner is the 2009 Recipient of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Scholars of Color in Education Distinguished Career Contribution Award and the 2009 AERA Dr. Carlos J. Vallejo Memorial Award for Lifetime Scholarship, the 2008 Recipient of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE). Juan Carlos Gonz lez is an assistant professor at California State University, Fresno, in the Department of Educational Research and Administration. His research interests include educational policy and history, multicultural and Latino educational issues, and ethics and diversity in higher education. His teaching interests include visual ethnography, the education of Chicanas and Chicanos, critical theory in education, and qualitative research methods.

About this edition

• Publisher: Stylus Publishing
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1579224881
• ISBN 13: 9781579224882
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 248
• Editor: Turner Caroline Sotello Viernes, González Juan Carlos