Tag Archive for: Arts & Culture

What predicts mentor self-efficacy? Hint: it starts with “E”

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summarized by Stella Kanchewa, Ph.D. Larose, S. (2014). Trajectories of mentors’ perceived self-efficacy during an academic mentoring experience: What they look like and what are their personal and experimental correlates? Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 21(2), 150-174, doi:10.1080/13611267.2013.813728. Problem: Previous studies have shown that mentor’s perceived self-efficacy (MPSE), defined as the “mentor’s level of […]

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A hidden benefit of cross-race/culture mentoring

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How Diversity Makes Us Smarter Being around people who are different from us makes us more creative, more diligent and harder-working By Katherine W. Phillips (from Scientific American) Credit: Edel Rodriguez In Brief Decades of research by organizational scientists, psychologists, sociologists, economists and demographers show that socially diverse groups (that is, those with a diversity of […]

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Jamie Wyeth discusses his art and culture mentor, Lincoln Kirstein

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In Chapter 190 of Matilda Raffa Cuomo’s book: The Person Who Changed My Life, contemporary American realist painter and son of Andrew Wyeth, Jamie Wyeth discusses his art and culture mentor, Lincoln Kirstein.            

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Fresh Starts for Hard-to-Like Students (or Mentees)

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Dr. Allen Mendler, reposted from Edutopia.org Even though your toughest students are just kids at the mercy of emotions they don’t understand or can’t control, it can be hard for a teacher [or mentor] to stay calm and not take these ongoing behavioral problems personally. My advice: it’s time to hit the reset button! Tough […]

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Will I be able to understand my mentee?: Examining the potential risk of the dominant culture mentoring marginalized youth

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Editor’s Note This is a very thoughtful piece by Jennifer Lindwall, the Director of Training and Quality Assurance at the Mentoring Partnership of Minnesota since February 2013. The article appeared in a collection, Moving Youth Work Practice Forward:  Reflections on Autonomy and Authority. Jen’s piece touches on some of the thorny issues in youth mentoring that are rarely discussed but […]

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MENTOR, Pivot TV Pair Pop Culture with Social Action

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October 2013 Joe Halpern, MENTOR Writer MENTOR has begun an exciting partnership with Pivot TV, a new cable television network that targets talented and passionate 18 to 34 year old Millennials, to encourage viewers to explore mentoring programs as part of a year-long social action initiative on the channel’s new hit docu-series, “Jersey Strong”. The […]

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