The recent and growing literature on mentoring has seen a lot of studies focusing on how
mentors think about and conceptualise their work. There has been less which has examined …

Student teachers have always worked with professionals during their teaching practice, but
as teacher training becomes more school based, the role of the mentor has become much …

This study explores the perceptions of mentor teachers about the impact of mentoring on
them. This cross-cultural research project included an American and an Israeli teacher …

Introduction This chapter is' concerned with how growth in teaching can be fostered in
student teachers through mentoring. It begins with an analysis of the growth process by …

This article provides an overview of various models and interpretations of mentoring and
focuses on a somewhat neglected aspect of mentoring: the explication of mentor teachers' …

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 …

This review explores ways in which the mentors of trainee teachers can use research as a
means of questioning, understanding and improving their own practices. The first part …

This review of the research literature focuses on the interconnectedness of the roles of
mentor teachers and pre-service teachers. In order to examine the interconnectedness of …

Mentoring may be seen as a process that helps student teachers become professional
teachers. In this context, a variety of significant roles played by mentors have been identified …

The role of the mentor as opposed to that of co-operating teacher is increasingly viewed as
important in the process of guiding student teachers' work in the field. This paper focuses …