Mentoring Geography Teachers in the Secondary School: A Practical Guide

ISBN-13: 9780367743215 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 260 str.

Grace Healy; Lauren Hammond; Steve Puttick

Opis

Mentoring Geography Teachers in the Secondary School supports both new and experienced mentors in developing their knowledge and skills in mentoring in geography education. Within the book, chapter authors critically consider how mentoring has been conceptualised and represented in policy and academic debate.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Mentoring matters in and for geography education  Section 1: Mentoring in geography education  2. Navigating the policy landscape: conceptualising subject-specialist mentoring within and beyond policy  3. Mentoring as a spatial practice  4. What sort of mentoring for what sort of geography education?  Section 2: Perspectives and experiences in geography mentoring  5. Working with the complexity of professional practice and development  6. Mentoring as a professional development opportunity  7. Mentoring that makes a difference: perspectives from beginning teachers  8. Mentoring within the geography subject community  9. Supporting the development of geography mentors – the potential of professional learning at Masters level  Section 3: Being a geography mentor  10. Mentoring meetings and conversations supporting beginning teachers in their development as geography teachers  11. Planning in geography education: a conversation between university-based tutors and school-based mentors in Initial Teacher Education  12. Geography lesson observations at the interface between research and practice  13. Geography and geography education scholarship as a mechanism for developing and sustaining mentors’ and beginning teachers’ subject knowledge and curriculum thinking  14. Educative mentoring: a key to professional learning for geography teachers and mentors  15. Well-being: theory and practice for beginning geography teachers  Section 4: Conclusion  16. Mentoring matters: contributing to a more just tomorrow in geography education