SUMMARY
This paper is a reflection on the author's experience of personal tutoring in a vocational discipline. It views personal tutoring as a core around which academic and industrial tutoring can fall into place. Tutoring is seen as ‘meeting’ and ‘relationship’. A range of meeting situations is identified and explored. The paper seeks to contribute to an understanding of the art and vocation of tutoring, rather than science. The particular discipline from which the author derives his insights is that of building.
I want to... pose as sharply as I can the question of how we can develop a shared sense of purpose which binds together all our teaching, learning and helping into a coherent educational philosophy.
(Earwaker, 1992)