Labours of Care in Sport

Meena Gopal’s essay employs a feminist perspective of care and an autoethnographic method to explore the dimensions of a nurturing, mentoring practice in athletics. It is done through an unravelling of school, club and social intersections, illuminating possibilities of a sports commons even while nurturing competitive excellence. The labours of mentoring and care in the arena of athletics hopes to generate sport as a space that is participatory, inclusive and emancipatory. In the 1980s, the skewed nature of public schools meant that sport received less state support, while private institutions were able to nurture some sports talent due to sustained mentorship.

Socio-psychological climate of the library staff as a condition for its effective activity

One of the personnel management tasks, including libraries, is the formation of a climate in the work collective. The purpose of the article is to study the state of the socio-psychological climate of the library staff as a factor impacting the efficiency of its activities and to develop recommendations for its evolution. To study the staff of the academic library of Novosibirsk State Technological University (NSTU), the Nemov method for socio-psychological self-assessment of the team, as well as continuous questioning of employees, was used. Based on the results of diagnostics of the socio-psychological climate of the staff of the NSTU academic library, it is shown that the implementation of mentoring practice can contribute to the elimination of the identified shortcomings and to the formation of a more stable socio-psychological climate in the team. In order to reduce the risks of potential conflicts in the team, it is proposed to organize training for the employees of the NSTU scientific library. The results and conclusions obtained can be used in the practical activities of not only the NSTU academic library, but also in any other library with any number of persons in a team.

Pelatihan Microsoft Word Dasar Untuk Perangkat Desa Gelang Kecamatan Sumber Baru Kabupaten Jember

In community service, especially village administration, ideally, village officials have essential Microsoft word competencies. However, from the report from the village apparatus of Gelang, only one person who mastered the basic Microsoft word was not comprehensive. Basic Microsoft word skills are considered necessary by the village apparatus of Gelang. This material chose because this material has not been mastered and deemed to be most often needed to handle the Gelang village office's administration, so it is necessary to hold basic Microsoft word training activities for the village apparatus of Gelang. This activity was born on September 7, 2016, introducing the presenter followed by a pre-test to determine the participants' initial abilities. After that, the presentation of material about basic Microsoft word accompanied by mentoring, practice, discussion and ended with a post-test continued with the material's production. The activity evaluation data shows that the participant's post-test scores' lowest score wa perfect compared to the participant's pre-test scores. The lowest score for the participant's post-test was 75, and the highest score for the participant was 90 compared to the pre-test score with the highest score only reaching 60/ Thus, it can say that there was a significant increase in the score.

"Measuring the Effectiveness of Teacher's Mentoring Practices on Academic achievement of University Students"

This research intended to examine and explore the effectiveness of teachers mentoring practice on the academic achievement of university students. This study is descriptive, in nature Objective of the study was to measure the effectiveness of teachers' mentoring practice on students’ academic achievement at the university level. The hypothesis of this study is: there is a positive impact of teacher mentoring on students' achievement. For this purpose a stratified random sample of 100 respondents was collected from two distinct groups of the population were from both genders male teachers and female teachers who are teaching in respective institutions and male and female students who are studying from same institutes. The result obtained from the research study revealed that there is a positive and constructive connection between teachers mentoring practice and students' academic achievement. It is recommended that the government level and state levels should encourage mentoring programs for beginner teachers at the university level and should also provide the necessary infrastructure to facilitate in all institutions. It is also recommended that Administrative heads of institutions e.g. Vice-Chancellors, Deans, and Heads of Department, should ensure that effective and efficient mentoring programs exist and are encouraged in their respective Faculties and Departments. Heads of departments should ensure that newly appointed teachers may fully aware of the significance of mentoring.

Best Practices for Mentoring in Arts Entrepreneurship Education: Findings From a Delphi Study

Arts entrepreneurship education is a multifaceted endeavor encompassing a diversity of learning contexts, from collegiate lecture halls to close apprenticeships and one-on-one coaching. Although existing research explores best practices for the arts entrepreneurship classroom, relatively few studies have been undertaken to explore the role of mentoring in arts endeavoring, the effectiveness of mentoring as a targeted pedagogical approach, and how mentoring might complement or even conflict with the tenets of classroom-based arts entrepreneurship education. The purpose of this study was to build consensus among established arts entrepreneurship educators regarding optimal mentoring activities, outcomes, and competencies. Eleven experts in the field of arts entrepreneurship participated in a multiphase Delphi procedure to generate and subsequently evaluate approaches to, and outcomes and characteristics of, effective mentoring. The result is a set of 43 expert-approved recommendations that can inform mentoring practice immediately and provide a foundation for future research in this still-emerging area of inquiry.

Reflections on the Pedagogy of My Professor and Mentor Katie Geneva Cannon

This is a short reflection on aspects of the pedagogy and mentoring practice of Dr. Katie Geneva Cannon. This approach invited collaborative engagement and included a threefold process that included affirmation, inspiration, and charge. See companion contributions to this Forum written by Miguel A. De La Torre, Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas, Karen K. Seat, and Angela D. Sims.

Reflections on the Pedagogy of My Professor and Mentor Katie Geneva Cannon

This is a short reflection on aspects of the pedagogy and mentoring practice of Dr. Katie Geneva Cannon. This approach invited collaborative engagement and included a threefold process that included affirmation, inspiration, and charge. See companion contributions to this Forum written by Miguel A. De La Torre, Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas, Karen K. Seat, and Angela D. Sims.

MODEL OF MENTORING IN A NON-HUMANITARIAN UNIVERSITYTWO-DIMENSIONAL

Current urgent issues in highr education research include the adaptation of fi rst-year students to study activities at the university, the search for a model to form an environment that can help students to adapt more successfully to conditions when they needs to show such qualities as independence, an ability to organize their time, communication, an ability to learn and self-study. The paper presents a “two-dimensional model of mentoring”, in which relationships are built between mentored student (mentees, i.e. fi rst-year students) and mentor-students (senior students), as well as between student-mentors and the teachermentor. The conducted studies revealed a number of didactic features of the implementation of mentoring in a non-humanitarian university, namely: reliance on subject-subject relations between all interaction participants, special competences of a teachermentor, compulsory procedures that provide refl ection of activities, etc. The proposed “two-dimensional model of mentoring” specifi es the goals of interaction, organizational and activity measures in the practice of mentoring, formulates the methodological principles of mentoring, and clarifi es the implemented didactic approaches. The paper presents the tasks of the mentoring subjects, the conditions that ensure a more eff ective implementation of mentoring, and the main provisions of the mentoring practice. The approbation of the practical aspects of the proposed model has proved its eff ectiveness: more successful involvement of fi rstyear students in the extracurricular activities of the university and better learning outcomes. The authors show the expediency of using the proposed model for the development and implementation of mentoring practice in a non-humanitarian university