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Mentoring Conversations and Student Teacher Learning

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Mentoring for Learning

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To foster a mentee’s learning, mentoring comes to aid as a ‘helping’ process to attain higher levels of proficiency but… the main lesson is that the high ground can not be approached hastily. Even the most difficult problems can be solved and even the most precipitous heights can be scaled, if only a slow step-by-step pathway can be found.

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    Harm Tillema

  2. University of Johannesburg, South Africa

    Gert J. Van Der Westhuizen

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Tillema, H., Westhuizen, G.J.V.D. (2015). Mentoring Conversations and Student Teacher Learning. In: Tillema, H., Westhuizen, G.J.v.d., Smith, K. (eds) Mentoring for Learning. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-058-1_2

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