Epilogue: Unresolved questions about mentoring and technology.
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- William A. Kealy, Visiting Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: As we embrace the concept of e-mentorship, we not only wonder whether face-to-face mentoring can be replaced by an electronic doppelganger (i.e. a phantom twin), but also encounter questions that deal with the fundamental nature of mentoring. What does it mean, for example, to have a ‘personal’ relationship with a mentor or role model? Conceivably, such questions may only have importance from the perspective of a naïve and overly sentimental view of mentorship. As e-mentoring supplants the ‘old fashioned’ way of mentoring, we may be in danger of idealising the latter and, as a result, missing opportunities offered by the former.
Epilogue: Unresolved questions about mentoring and technology.
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Mentoring and Tutoring. 11(1), 119-120
- Language: English
- Date: 2003
- Keywords
- Mentoring, Technology, E-mentorship