Philosophical Mentoring in Qualitative Research

This book looks at the ways that mentoring relationships can can become a practice of philosophy. By looking at mentoring experiences and relationships through a new materialist framework, the chapters highlight the intrinsically relational nature of mentoring.

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Kelly W. Guyotte is Associate Professor of Qualitative Research at the University of Alabama, USA, and Coordinator of the Educational Research Program. Inspired by her background in the visual arts, her research interests include gender and equity in higher education, artful inquiry practices, STEAM education, and teaching/mentoring in qualitative inquiry.

Jennifer R. Wolgemuth is Associate Professor of Educational Research at the University of South Florida, USA, and Director of the Graduate Certificate in Qualitative Research. Drawing on critical theories, she explores inquiry as an agential process that investigates and creates the lives and communities to and for which researchers are responsible.

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With contributions from advanced, early career, and emerging qualitative scholars, Philosophical Mentoring in Qualitative Research illuminates how qualitative research mentoring practices, relationships, and possibilities of inquiry and teaching come to life under different mentoring philosophies.

What we can know in and about the world is inseparable from our approach(es) to knowing with and in it. And how we mentor in qualitative research matters to what we can know and do as qualitative inquirers. Yet, despite its importance, mentoring is rarely conceptualized as a practice inspiring or inspired by philosophy. This edited book opens a needed space for thinking about mentoring as a philosophical practice. Its thoughtful chapters and artful "mentoring moments" draw on critical, feminist, new materialist, post-structuralist, and other philosophies to make visible, interrupt, reflect, deepen, and expand mentoring practices within the qualitative community revealing what we can know, do, and become through them.

Philosophical Mentoring in Qualitative Research sensitizes readers to mentoring as a philosophical practice. As such, it is essential reading for students and researchers in qualitative research and higher education interested in mentoring practice and humanistic research values.

Contenu

Introduction: Why Philosophical Mentoring in Qualitative Research? * Kelly W. Guyotte and Jennifer R. Wolgemuth

• Mentoring Moment: Willful Habit * Shelly Melchior

1. Becoming Feminist Swarm: Inquiring Mentorship Methodologically Together * Maureen A. Flint and Susan O. Cannon

Mentoring Moment: The Mentor I Never Knew I Needed Rebeka Gordon

• 2. Flipping Mentoring: Feminist Materialist Praxis as Quiet Activism * Carol A. Taylor

• Mentoring Moment: Lost in the Becomings * Carlson H. Coogler

3. Kinning and Composting: Mentorship/t in Post Qualitative Research * Jonathan M. Coker, Samantha Haraf, María Migueliz Valcarlos, Scottie Basham, Diane Austin, Dionne Davis, Anna Gonzalez and Jennifer R. Wolgemuth

   • Mentoring Moment: for kwg Aubrey Uresti

4. Ruinous Mentorship * Travis M. Marn and Kelly W. Guyotte

Mentoring Moment: The Voice of Calm Missy Springsteen-Haupt

Mentoring Moment: Learning is Water Reflection Cristina Valencia Mazzanti

• 5. Unfinished: (Post)Philosophically Informed Mentoring and Relational Ethics * Candace R. Kuby

• Mentoring Moment: She Said I Should Call Her Jenni * Krista S. Mallo

Mentoring Moment: My North Star Quintin R. Bostic II

• 6. Mentoring as Radical Interconnectivity and Love: Post-Oppositional and De/colonial Approaches to Qualitative Research Mentoring in Higher Education * Kakali Bhattacharya and Jia Liang

• Mentoring Moment: A Mentoring Moment with My Mentor * Ying Wang

Mentoring Moment: Mentorship as Radical Care Elliott Kuecker

• 7. The Importance of Relationships in Mentorship and Methodological Identities * Stephanie Anne Shelton, April M. Jones, Kelsey H. Guy and Boden Robertson

Mentoring Moment: Mentoring Amalgam Rachel K. Killam

Mentoring Moment: Mentor and Athena Minkyu Kim

• 8. "I don't want feelings. I want tacos.": Toward a New Materialist Mentoring Practice * Brenda Sifuentez and Ryan Evely Gildersleeve

Mentoring Moment: Culturally Relevant Mentorship in Motion Rouhollah Aghasaleh

Mentoring Moment: A Qualitative Mentoring Process Diagram in Haiku Jaclyn K. Murray

• 9. String Figure Mentoring in a Qualitative Inquiry Assemblage * Susan Naomi Nordstrom

Mentoring Moment: Mentoring as a Collective Relationality Nikki Fairchild

• 10. Mentoring (Maybe) as a Philosophical Event * Mirka Koro, Mariia Vitrukh, Nicole Bowers, Lauren Mark and Timothy Wells

Mentoring Moment: Before the Beginning: A Poem for My Mentor, Dr. Susan Copeland Sharon Head *