Dial M for mentor : reflections on mentoring in film, television, and literature

• Main Authors: Gravells, Jonathan (Author), Wallace, Sue (Author)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, [2011]
• Subjects: Mentoring.; Mentoring in education.; Mentors in popular culture.; Psychology > General.; Teaching skills and techniques.; Psychology.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781806616428
• DOI: 10.1108/978-1-61735-431-1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxiii, 132 pages) : illustrations

This book takes stories of learning relationships from popular films, television programmes and literature, and uses them as a catalyst for beginners and experts alike to reflect critically on their own mentoring and coaching practice. How realistic are our expectations of personal change, and to wh...

Table of Contents:

• Turkey, tomatoes, and poppadoms: storytelling, and its role in making meaning and learning
• Monks, mobsters, and the matrix: knowledge, learning, action, and change
• Vampires, hustlers and tough love: the use and abuse of power and trust
• From the bada-bing to the belly of the whale (by way of Belgium): the mentor as moral compass and conscience
• Ratso, Rita, and the android: personal change and self-fulfilment
• The enemy within, or just a critical friend?: the subversive mentor or transformation through subversion, humor, and tough love
• Attorneys, aliens, and fools: mentoring for diversity and speaking truth to power
• "Get busy living or get busy dying": purpose, autonomy and the power of positive thinking
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