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The role of mentors in supporting the professional learning of lecturers in further education colleges in Scotland and Wales.

Husband, Gary (2020) The role of mentors in supporting the professional learning of lecturers in further education colleges in Scotland and Wales. Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 25 (1). pp. 42-67. ISSN 1359-6748

Item Type: Article

Abstract

This article details the findings of a research project that aimed to interpret and understand the experiences of further education lecturers as they undertook initial teacher education. Using rigorous methods grounded in hermeneutic phenomenology, the research situated in colleges in Scotland and Wales structured as two significant case studies, revealed that the 20 respondents had a reliance on both formal and informal mentoring from colleagues in developing their practice as lecturers. The support received from mentors supplemented the perceived deficiencies of formal training courses in preparing the respondents for supporting students with extended needs. The article analyses the relationship between formal university provided teacher education and the practicalities of supported work based practice. The research foregrounds UK further education as a suitable and internationally important model for the broader study of utilised methods of professional learning and the relationships between mentoring and prescriptive qualifications. The paper concludes by highlighting the importance of strengthening and developing mentoring and work based professional learning partnerships within colleges and foregrounds the pertinence of this in relation to the next phase of FE development in the UK.

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Depositing User: Gary Husband

Identifiers

Item ID: 15368
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1080/13596748.2020.1720167
ISSN: 1359-6748
URI: http://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/15368
Official URL: https://www.sciencegate.app/document/10.1080/13596...

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ORCID for Gary Husband: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-6673-1223

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Date Deposited: 26 Oct 2022 09:54
Last Modified: 26 Oct 2022 09:54

Contributors

Author: Gary Husband ORCID iD

University Divisions

Faculty of Education and Society > School of Education

Subjects

Education > Educational Research
Education > Further Education
Education

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