Mentorship, Leadership, and Research by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783319954479
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Succession

Those involved in teaching and learning in higher education have a tendency to look at mentoring and the ritual of inducting the next generation into the academy, as legacy: as a mentor looking back to the days when they were students, rather than as a new pioneer looking forward. How shall we resist nostalgia and design succession going forward? Whereas tradition is about replication and continuation, succession supports innovation and allows for change and new developments being introduced by those who are taking on responsibilities.

To biologists succession is a process of development of an ecosystem such as a landscape that starts as bare rock and develops through various stages to deciduous forest. It is developmental, evolutionary and collective rather than simply a one-to-one relationship between individuals. Taking ecological succession as an analogy for educational succession, in developing a new course from ‘the ground up’, how can we design succession so that the course becomes a rich, inclusive learning environment? The case study that follows will consider this.

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