You know what, this is kind of helping me': Students' experiences of a Hong Kong school-based mentoring programme

You know what, this is kind of helping me': Students' experiences of a Hong Kong school-based mentoring programme

• Harrison, Mark Gregory The Education University of Hong Kong
• Luk, Bonnie
• Lim, Lianne

Asia-Pacific Education Researcher , 28(2), 149-157, 2019

Springer

2019

• N Students & Student Services
  • NC Charactieristics & Conditions of Students; Opinion & Attitudes of Students, Problems of Adjustment
• F Learning & Teaching
  • FA General Teaching Strategies, Different Instructional Methods

Mentoring in Education Chinese Language Students Private Schools Secondary Schools Mentoring Qualitative School-Based Mentoring Thematic Analysis

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Secondary Education

Ten semi-structured interviews were conducted with ethnically Chinese adolescents enrolled into a school-based mentoring programme at a private secondary school in Hong Kong. Interview data were analysed thematically and two themes developed: 'experiencing mentoring' and 'experiencing the mentor'. The mentees, although initially sceptical about mentoring, were surprised by its helpfulness. Through the development of an informal and collaborative relationship in which students experienced their mentor as a trustworthy, mature and objective adult, students found an important source of emotional support and practical help which benefited their academic work. Students' experience was influenced by their mentors' role in the school, length of service and gender match. School-based mentoring programmes in a Hong Kong context have the potential to offer emotional and academic support to students. Cultural factors may have an impact on the experience of mentoring which schools should take into account when setting up such programmes.
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• English

Journal Articles

• 01195646

• 10.1007/s40299-018-0421-2

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2020-03-03