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PURPOSE: How mentors shape their mentoring is strongly influenced by their personal beliefs about the goals and purpose of mentoring, the possible activities associated with it, who decides on the focus of the mentoring relationship, and the strategies mentors choose to enact these beliefs in practice. In accordance with the personal interpretative framework, the authors operationalized mentors' beliefs as professional self-understanding (the ...

BACKGROUND: An important strategy to support the professional development of mentors in health professions education is to encourage critical reflection on what they do, why they do it, and how they do it. Not only the 'how' of mentoring should be covered, but also the implicit knowledge and beliefs fundamental to the mentoring practice (a mentor's personal interpretative framework). This study analyzed the extent to which mentors perceive a ...

Midden in de coronacrisis van 2020 en de enorme inspanningen die de medische sector en hun leveranciers daarbij leveren, stelt zich de vraag wat de metaalsector uit de aanpak van de medische sector kan leren. Hoe ver staat het met traceerbaarheid en certificatie? En wanneer en waarvoor zijn traceerbaarheid en certificatie ook in de metaalsector van belang?

Purpose: The number of early career teachers leaving the profession continues to be an ongoing issue across the globe. This pressing concern has resulted in increased attention to the instructional and psychological conditions necessary to retain early career educators. However, less formal attention has been paid to the social infrastructure in which early career teachers find themselves. In this study, we foreground the role of social capital ...

Background Essential to the professional development of mentors is making explicit and critically challenging the knowledge and beliefs underpinning their mentoring practice. This paper reports on the development of a survey instrument called MERIT, MEntor Reflection InstrumenT, which was designed to support mentors’ systematic reflection on the how, what and why of their practice. Methods In 2019, a twenty-item survey instrument was developed ...

De cijfers liegen er niet om. Het aantal beginnende leraren die vroegtijdig het beroep verlaten - in het Vlaams secundair onderwijs zelfs tot 22% - is alarmerend. Deze prangende realiteit, die bovendien niet louter Vlaams is, heeft er toe geleid dat vandaag de dag meer aandacht uitgaat naar het begeleiden van beginnende leraren. In deze studie onderzoeken we naast de formele relatie tussen de mentor en de mentee ook de impact van sociale ...