3. 30 Adult Learning Professionals Gathered from
Across the University and Beyond
What Are We
Talking About
(when we talk When you think about
about mentoring, advising
mentoring, and informal learning
advising and in your practice
informal setting, what comes to
learning)? mind?
What does it
look like? What
other terms do
you use for it?
Who is
involved? What
value does it
have?
8. What conditions or
More Learning Professionals Gathered to practices seem
Experience
and Discuss Informal Learning and Mentoringeffective in
particularly
fostering informal
learning and/or
mentoring?
What does informal
learning and/or
mentoring look like in
your practice setting?
What conditions,
activity or processes
enable you to ensure
that your experience
or encounter
becomes new
learning?
9.
10. A Scholar-Practitioner
Conversation on
Intentional Mentoring,
Advising and
Informal Learning
12. More Gathered to Discuss Two Scholarly Articles
What role has
discomfort/comfort Mentoring & Informal Learning
on
played in your
experience of
mentoring and informal
learning?
How have you
negotiated some of
the issues that are
Do the articles give you any raised in the articles
ideas to experiment with in your setting?
that might enhance a culture
of informal learning and
mentoring in your setting?
15. What does the players
status have on the
encounter?
Playing With Our Roles
In Mentoring, Advising and Informal Learning
What lessons did we learn
that can help us enhance
intentional mentoring,
How do our preconceptions advising and informal
about our roles impede or learning in our practice
enhance the learning? setting?
