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This chapter is primarily concerned with the involvement of mentors from business and industry working alongside pupils and teachers in schools in the Young Foresight Project. The chapter will begin by giving a brief description of the Young Foresight Project and the materials it produced. It will then describe briefly the way in which the project was evaluated to inform its development. It will then present some of the findings of this evaluation with particular regard to the views of the mentors from industry. It will describe the way that mentors adopted different roles in the classroom and the way in which the views of the mentors led to the revision of the project materials. Finally it will consider the worth of involving mentors in the development of such a project and discuss the way mentoring can be situated within a participation metaphor for learning.
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Barlex, D. (2012). The Young Foresight Project. In: France, B., Compton, V. (eds) Bringing Communities Together. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-791-2_8
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