Mentoring: Perspectives on School-based Teacher Education

A series of essays on mentoring issues in education, which includes discussion of the political and historical aspects of mentoring, the mentor-student relationship and the generic skills approach to mentoring. The political and historical aspects of mentoring; are mentor teachers educators?; from supervisor to colleague-mentor; competence and the mentor-student relationship; the role of the mentor; mentoring teachers - what are the issues?; a theoretical justification of the generic skills approach to mentoring; the impersonation of wisdom.