1,532
Views
7
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

Mentors for beginning teachers as middle leaders: the messy work of recontextualising

ORCID Icon, ORCID Icon, ORCID Icon, ORCID Icon, ORCID Icon & ORCID Icon
Pages 334-351 | Received 30 Apr 2018, Accepted 08 Nov 2018, Published online: 27 Dec 2018

References

  • Abbott, R., D. Macdonald, P. Hay, and L. McCuaig. 2011. “‘Just add Facilitators and Stir’: Stimulating Policy Uptake in Schools.” Educational Management Administration & Leadership 39 (5): 603–620. doi: 10.1177/1741143211408452
  • Adams, P. 2016. “Education Policy: Explaining, Framing and Forming.” Journal of Education Policy 31 (3): 290–307. doi: 10.1080/02680939.2015.1084387
  • AITSL (Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership). 2011. Australian Professional Standards for Teachers. Carlton: Ministerial Council for Education, Early Childhood Development and Youth Affairs (MCEECDYA).
  • Allard, A. C., D. Mayer, and J. Moss. 2014. “Authentically Assessing Graduate Teaching: Outside and Beyond Neo-liberal Constructs.” The Australian Educational Researcher 41 (4): 425–443. doi: 10.1007/s13384-013-0140-x
  • Aspfors, J., and G. Fransson. 2015. “Research on Mentor Education for Mentors of Newly Qualified Teachers: A Qualitative Meta-synthesis.” Teaching & Teacher Education 48: 75–86. doi:10.1016/j.tate.2015.02.004.
  • Bahr, N., and S. Mellor. 2016. Building Quality in Teaching and Teacher Education. http://research.acer.edu.au/aer/15.
  • Bernstein, B. 2000. Pedagogy, Symbolic Control, and Identity: Theory, Research, Critique. Revised ed. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield.
  • Beutel, D., L. Crosswell, J. Willis, R. Spooner-Lane, E. Curtis, and P. Churchward. 2017. “Preparing teachers to mentor beginning teachers: an Australian case study.” International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching in Education 6 (3): 164–177. doi: 10.1108/IJMCE-04-2017-0030
  • Buchanan, J., A. Prescott, S. Schuck, P. Aubusson, and P. Burke. 2013. “Teacher Retention and Attrition: Views of Early Career Teachers.” Australian Journal of Teacher Education 38 (3): 124–141. doi:10.14221/ajte.2013v38n3.9.
  • Caldwell, B., and D. Sutton. 2010. First Report of the Review of Teacher Education and School Induction. Brisbane: Queensland Government.
  • Crane, A., and J. De Nobile. 2014. “Year Coordinators as Middle-leaders in Independent Girls’ Schools: Their Role and Accountability.” Leading and Managing 20 (1): 80.
  • DET (Department of Education and Training). 2013. Mentoring Beginning Teachers Program. Brisbane: Queensland Government. http://dete.qld.gov.au/mbt.
  • Dinham, S. 2013. “The Quality Teaching Movement in Australia Encounters Difficult Terrain: A Personal Perspective.” Australian Journal of Education 57 (2): 91–106. doi:10.1177/0004944113485840.
  • Ehrich, L. C., B. Hansford, and L. Tennent. 2004. “Formal Mentoring Programs in Education and Other Professions: A Review of the Literature.” Educational Administration Quarterly 40 (4): 518–540. doi: 10.1177/0013161X04267118
  • Fitzgerald, T., and S. Knipe. 2016. “Policy Reform: Testing Times for Teacher Education in Australia.” Journal of Educational Administration and History 48 (4): 358–369. doi: 10.1080/00220620.2016.1210588
  • Gilles, C., and J. Wilson. 2004. “Receiving as Well as Giving: Mentors’ Perceptions of Their Professional Development in One Teacher Induction Program.” Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning 12 (1): 87–106. doi: 10.1080/1361126042000183020
  • Gronn, P. 2002. “Distributed Leadership as a Unit of Analysis.” The Leadership Quarterly 13: 423–451. doi: 10.1016/S1048-9843(02)00120-0
  • Hamilton, G., C. Forde, and M. McMahon. 2018. “Developing a Coherent Strategy to Build Leadership Capacity in Scottish Education.” Management in Education 32 (2): 72–78. doi:10.1177/0892020618762715.
  • Hammersley-Fletcher, L., and M. Strain. 2011. “Power, Agency and Middle Leadership in English Primary Schools.” British Educational Research Journal 37 (5): 871–884. doi: 10.1080/01411926.2010.506944
  • Harris, A., and M. Jones. 2017. “Middle Leaders Matter: Reflections, Recognition, and Renaissance, Editorial.” School Leadership & Management, 213–216. https://gateway.library.qut.edu.au/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=ip,sso&db=eue&AN=123351589&site=ehost-live&scope=site. doi: 10.1080/13632434.2017.1323398
  • Hobson, A. J. 2016. “Judgementoring and How to Avert It: Introducing ONSIDE Mentoring for Beginning Teachers.” International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching in Education 5 (2): 87–110. doi:10.1108/IJMCE-03-2016-0024.
  • Holmes, B. 2016. “A Middle Leader's Initiative to Lead Teachers in Learning to Self-assess Their Professional Growth Using the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers.” Leading & Managing 22 (2): 76–93.
  • Hudson, P. 2013. “Mentoring as Professional Development: ‘Growth for Both’ Mentor and Mentee.” Professional Development in Education 39 (5): 771–783. doi: 10.1080/19415257.2012.749415
  • James, F., and S. Figaro-Henry. 2017. “Building Collective Leadership Capacity Using Collaborative Twenty-first Century Digital Tools.” School Leadership & Management 37 (5): 520–536. doi:10.1080/13632434.2017.1367277.
  • Javadi, V., T. Bush, and A. Ng. 2017. “Middle Leadership in International Schools: Evidence from Malaysia.” School Leadership & Management 37 (5): 476–499. doi:10.1080/13632434.2017.1366439.
  • Johnson, B., B. Down, R. Le Cornu, J. Peters, A. Sullivan, J. Pearce, and J. Hunter. 2014. “Promoting Early Career Teacher Resilience: A Framework for Understanding and Acting.” Teachers and Teaching 20 (5): 530–546. doi: 10.1080/13540602.2014.937957
  • Jorgensen, R. 2016. “Middle Leadership: A Key Role of Numeracy Reform.” Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom 21 (3): 32–37.
  • Kemmis, S., H. L. Heikkinen, G. Fransson, J. Aspfors, and C. Edwards-Groves. 2014. “Mentoring of New Teachers as a Contested Practice: Supervision, Support and Collaborative Self-development.” Teaching and Teacher Education 43: 154–164. doi: 10.1016/j.tate.2014.07.001
  • Koballa, T. R., J. Kittleson, L. U. Bradbury, and M. J. Dias. 2010. “Teacher Thinking Associated with Science-specific Mentor Preparation.” Science Education 94 (6): 1072–1091. doi: 10.1002/sce.20400
  • Koh, H. H., D. Gurr, L. Drysdale, and L. L. Ang. 2011. “How School Leaders Perceive the Leadership Role of Middle Leaders in Singapore Primary Schools.” Asia Pacific Education Review 12 (4): 609. doi: 10.1007/s12564-011-9161-1
  • Lahtero, T. J., N. Lång, and J. Alava. 2017. “Distributed Leadership in Practice in Finnish Schools.” School Leadership & Management 37 (3): 217–233. doi:10.1080/13632434.2017.1293638.
  • Langdon, F. J. 2014. “Evidence of Mentor Learning and Development: An Analysis of New Zealand Mentor/Mentee Professional Conversations.” Professional Development in Education 40 (1): 36–55. doi:10.1080/19415257.2013.833131.
  • Mason, S., and C. Matas. 2015. “Teacher attrition and retention research in Australia: Towards a new theoretical framework.” Australian Journal of Teacher Education (Online) 40 (11): 45.
  • Merriam, S. B., and E. J. Tisdell. 2015. Qualitative Research: A Guide to Design and Implementation. Malden, MA: John Wiley & Sons.
  • Orland-Barak, L. 2002. “What's in a Case? What Mentors’ Cases Reveal About the Practice of Mentoring.” Journal of Curriculum Studies 34: 451–468. doi:10.1080/00220270110091140.
  • Pennanen, M., L. Bristol, J. Wilkinson, and H. L. Heikkinen. 2016. “What is ‘good’mentoring? Understanding mentoring practices of teacher induction through case studies of Finland and Australia.” Pedagogy, Culture & Society 24 (1): 27–53. doi: 10.1080/14681366.2015.1083045
  • QCT (Queensland College of Teachers). 2015. Transition to Full Registration. http://www.qct.edu.au/registration/transition-to-full-registration.
  • Queensland Government. 2017. Mentoring Beginning Teachers. http://education.qld.gov.au/staff/development/employee/teachers/mentoring.html.
  • Roehrig, A. D., C. M. Bohn, J. E. Turner, and M. Pressley. 2008. “Mentoring Beginning Primary Teachers for Exemplary Teaching Practices.” Teaching and Teacher Education 24: 684–702. doi:10.1016/j.tate.2007.02.008.
  • Sadovnik, A. R. 1995. “Basil Bernstein's Theory of Pedagogic Practice: A Structuralist Approach.” In Knowledge and Pedagogy: The Sociology of Basil Bernstein, edited by A. R. Sadovnik, 3–35. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Corporation.
  • Saldaña, J. 2009. The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
  • Shapira-Lishchinsky, O., and T. Levy-Gazenfrantz. 2015. “Authentic Leadership Strategies in Support of Mentoring Processes.” School Leadership & Management 35 (2): 183–201. doi:10.1080/13632434.2014.992777.
  • Singh, P. 2017. “Pedagogic Governance: Theorising with/After Bernstein.” British Journal of Sociology of Education 38 (2): 144–163. doi:10.1080/01425692.2015.1081052.
  • Smeed, L., M. Kimber, J. Millwater, and L. C. Ehrich. 2009. “Power Over, with and Through: Another Look at Micropolitics.” Leading and Managing 15 (1): 26–41.
  • Spillane, J. P., J. B. Diamond, P. Burch, T. Hallett, L. Jita, and J. Zoltners. 2002. “Managing in the Middle: School Leaders and the Enactment of Accountability Policy.” Educational Policy 16 (5): 731–762. doi: 10.1177/089590402237311
  • Spooner-Lane, R. 2017. “Mentoring beginning teachers in primary schools: Research review.” Professional Development in Education 43 (2): 253–273. doi: 10.1080/19415257.2016.1148624
  • Tracy, S. J. 2013. Qualitative Research Methods: Collecting Evidence, Crafting Analysis, Communicating Impact. Malden, MA: John Wiley & Sons.
  • Ulvik, M., and E. Sunde. 2013. “The Impact of Mentor Education: Does Mentor Education Matter?” Professional Development in Education 39 (5): 754–770. doi:10.1080/19415257.2012.754783.
  • Welch, A., J. Willis, and D. A. Beutel. 2013. “Through the eyes of the mentor: framing expectations within preservice teacher and mentor relationships.” In Knowledge Makers and Notice Takers: Teacher Education Research Impacting Policy and Practice, 1–6. Brisbane, QLD: Queensland University of Technology.
  • White, S. 2015. “Extending the Knowledge Base for (Rural) Teacher Educators.” Australian and International Journal of Rural Education 25 (3): 50–61.
  • Williams, G. 2017. “The Language of Performativity? A Content Analysis Concerning Differing Constructions of Leadership for Secondary School PE Departments.” School Leadership & Management 37 (3): 311–329. doi:10.1080/13632434.2017.1293634.
  • Willis, J., L. Crosswell, C. Morrison, A. Gibson, and M. Ryan. 2017. “Looking for leadership: the potential of dialogic reflexivity with rural early-career teachers.” Teachers and Teaching .: 1–16. doi: 10.1080/13540602.2017.1287695

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.