Factors influencing student mentoring: Insights from higher education institutions

Title

Factors influencing student mentoring: Insights from higher education institutions

Creator

Cherian R.M.; Francis C.

Description

Mentoring has a close relationship to the word journey, symbolic of a goal-oriented process. Goal 4 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) stress on quality education and mentoring in educational institutions is a vehicle in this direction. Higher education is a crucial phase when students seek coaching and guidance for professional development. Higher Education Institutions (HEI) focusing on quality education assign mentors for students' academic and professional enhancement. The present study involving 92 participants describes the mentoring process followed in two social science courses of two different HEI by following a mixed-method and employing descriptive statistics and grounded theory. The emergent themes include continued communication channels between mentor and mentee, goals, duration, frequency, conflict mitigation, age and inclusion. These are structured as a model which is akin to the Rhodes Model of Youth Mentoring but more comprehensive and suited to the Indian context. 2021 SCMS Group of Educational Institutions. All rights reserved.

Source

SCMS Journal of Indian Management, Vol-18, No. 2, pp. 106-119.

Date

2021-01-01

Publisher

SCMS Group of Educational Institutions

Subject

Academic Coping; Grounded Theory; Higher Education; Mentoring; Professional Development; Youth

Coverage

Cherian R.M., Department of Sociology and Social Work, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru, India; Francis C., Department of Sociology and Social Work, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru, India

Rights

Restricted Access

Relation

ISSN: 9733167

Format

Online

Language

English

Type

Article

Identifier

https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85110641545&partnerID=40&md5=66f0ac242d9e85a320d06c2ffabe43d0