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    Mentoring for school leadership in South Africa: diversity, dissimilarity and disadvantage

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    Authors
    Moorosi, Pontso
    Issue Date
    2012-07
    Subjects
    South Africa
    mentoring
    diversity
    similarity
    gender
    race
    school leadership
    leadership
    
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    Abstract
    In South Africa, until recently, mentoring has not been formalized as part of school leadership induction programmes or of leadership professional development. However, the South African government identified mentoring as a distinctive aspect of its pilot leadership development programme for school principals. This programme signalled a shift from ad hoc and informal mentoring to building mentorship into school leadership development programmes. However, there is still no clear understanding about what constitutes effective mentoring models and the significance of similarity and diversity in a mentoring relationship. In this paper I draw from two dissimilar datasets to explore mentoring from an identity (gender and race) perspective. Using similarity-attraction theory, the paper highlights the complexity of mentoring models and suggests that higher levels of dissimilarity in a mentoring relationship may lead to disadvantage.
    Citation
    Moorosi, P. (2012) 'Mentoring for school leadership in South Africa: diversity, dissimilarity and disadvantage'. Professional Development in Education 38 (3):487
    Publisher
    Taylor & Francis
    Journal
    Professional Development in Education
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10547/594577
    DOI
    10.1080/19415257.2011.637430
    Additional Links
    http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19415257.2011.637430
    Type
    Article
    Language
    en
    ISSN
    1941-5257
    1941-5265
    ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
    10.1080/19415257.2011.637430
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