Of Build and Voice

Abstract

As this book explored how secondary teachers understand and enact the mentoring of students, there were four components to be investigated: the literature on mentoring revealed prominent themes discussed in more traditional forms of mentoring, that of community programs and at-risk students; the literature on the broader notions of teaching, which include relationships, care, emotion, pastoral care, and ethics, suggested that there was an opportunity to locate the teacher as mentor within the literature relevant to schools, teachers, and teaching; five secondary school teachers who regularly mentor students were interviewed to discuss how they perceived mentoring in secondary schools and what practices they employed; four former secondary school students were interviewed to investigate how they were mentored and their perspectives on the practice of secondary teachers mentoring students.