[How Can Teachers' Professional Development be Best Used to Improve Gender Equality in Low and Middle Income Countries? Study case in Indonesia.]

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Abstract

The research focuses on the way persons 'do mentoring' in the workplace. The major reason of the study is to investigate the exploratory gaze at how mentoring is carried out shows that 'feminine' schemes are well comprised amidst those accessible, and emerge to be very effective. Focussing on just one facet of the discourse of authority, namely mentoring, this paper has identi?ed several distinct schemes which can be exploited in the mentoring process.

Table of Content

ABSTRACTII

CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION1

Statement of the Problem1

Purpose of the Study1

Research Questions2

Need for the Study2

CHAPTER II: LITERATURE REVIEW4

De?ning Leadership4

Think Leader, Think Male4

Definition of mentoring5

Purpose of mentoring7

Assessment Of Mentors And Role Models10

An Alternative Perspective11

Leader Development13

Perspectives Towards Mentoring19

Characteristics of good mentoring practices20

Good mentors as formative leaders23

Good Mentoring And Teacher Leadership24

CHAPTER III: CRITICAL ANALYSIS/DISCUSSION27

Dimensions of Analysis27

Gender And Mentoring Style29

Mentoring31

CHAPTER IV: SUMMARY, CONCLUSION, AND RECOMMENDATIONS36

REFERENCES38

APPENDICES44

CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION

Statement of the Problem

This paper discovers the way persons 'do mentoring' in the workplace. Using demonstrations from our comprehensive database of interactions, noted in several workplaces, the investigation identi?es a kind of discourse schemes utilised by those in places of blame in mentoring colleagues. (Bass 1998)The mentors in our corpus draw from a very broad repertoire of designs, extending from those which objective on procedural facets of job proposing, through corrective and appreciative comments, to supportive proposing, and digressive coaching. Although mentoring has conventionally been affiliated with men, the demonstrations show that women managers manage mentoring too, and the investigation suggests that some manage it very well.

 

Purpose of the Study

The major reason of the study is to investigate the exploratory gaze at how mentoring is carried out shows that 'feminine' schemes are well comprised amidst those accessible, and emerge to be very effective. It is proposed that flourishing women managers challenge or 'trouble' established gender boundaries and thereby elaborate the very idea of what it entails to be a leader. Through their discursive practices, they give the legitimacy of power to a kind of discursive designs, encompassing some conventionally considered as feminine. Thus, it is contended, the method of assembling one's persona as an productive foremost becomes progressively matching for women with that of assembling a communally ordered gender identity. (Bass 1985)

 

Research Questions

Research is founded on the next questions;

Successful women managers dispute or 'trouble' established gender boundaries and thereby elaborate the very notion of what it entails to be a leader.

Identity as an productive foremost becomes progressively matching for women with that of assembling a communally logical gender identity.

How manage persons 'do' mentoring?

Whead covering distinguishes creative from inproductive mentoring?

What types of mentoring schemes are utilised by good leaders?

Does mentoring, like other facets of authority, encompass a variety of methods, encompassing characteristics which are conventionally affiliated with gendered interaction?

 

Need for the Study

From a socio-pragmatic issue of outlook any helpful de?nition of authority should take account of a broader variety of characteristics and capabilities than those identified in the more customary authority ...