Mentors’ experiences of a school-based mentoring programme in Hong Kong

Mentors’ experiences of a school-based mentoring programme in Hong Kong

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

Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2022

Routledge

2022

• N Students & Student Services
  • NH Guidance, Counselling & School Social Work

Mentoring Mentors Secondary School Hong Kong

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Secondary Education

School-based mentoring programmes in which teachers act as mentors have the potential to offer a non-stigmatizing and developmentally appropriate source of support for secondary school students. However, the experience of teacher-mentors is under-researched, particularly in Hong Kong. Fifteen mentors participating in a school-based mentoring programme in one Hong Kong secondary school serving a Chinese population were interviewed and the data were analysed thematically. Findings indicated that teacher-mentors provided social and emotional support to their mentees, and that they were motivated to do so by a desire for greater relatedness to the students with whom they worked. The relationship formed between mentors and mentees was more spontaneous, less hierarchical, more wide-ranging, and more personal in nature than that between teachers and students, and constituted a source of satisfaction for mentors. The study has several implications for schools which may be considering implementing a mentoring programme. Copyright © 2022 National Institute of Education, Singapore.

• English

Journal Articles

• 02188791

• 10.1080/02188791.2022.2074371

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/b320369b

2022-09-06