Toward a Useful Theory of Mentoring
@article{Bozeman2007TowardAU, title={Toward a Useful Theory of Mentoring}, author={B. Bozeman and Mary K. Feeney}, journal={Administration & Society}, year={2007}, volume={39}, pages={719 - 739} }
In this review and critique of mentoring theory and research, the authors identify persistent problems in the development of mentoring theory. Their conceptual analysis highlights these problems with a “thought experiment” illustrating the inability of mentoring theory and research to resolve certain fundamental issues, the resolution of which is a prerequisite for the advancement of explanatory theory. They conclude with ideas about demarcating “mentoring” from the sometimes confounding… CONTINUE READING
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