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Mentoring Ph.D. Students within an Apprenticeship Framework

Mentoring Ph.D. Students within an Apprenticeship Framework

Mentoring Ph.D. students within an apprenticeship framework

Summary

Despite its importance in the education industry, little has been written about how to train, educate, and mentor graduate students in pursuit of a Ph.D. Consequently, inconsistency has tended to characterize professor–Ph.D. student mentoring processes and outcomes, perhaps affecting the time-to-completion of degree and also the student attrition rate. The purpose of this chapter is to address this need by providing some guidance on the process of training, educating, and mentoring Ph.D. students using a modeling, coaching, scaffolding, and fading framework. We characterize this as a collaborative dyadic mentoring process within an apprenticeship framework, and draw upon theory and research in mentoring, behavior modeling, social learning theory, and organizational politics to explicate ...

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