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This book introduces the concept of critical mentoring, presenting its theoretical and empirical foundations, and providing telling examples of what it looks like in practice, and what it can achieve. At this juncture when the demographics of our schools and colleges are rapidly changing, critical mentoring provides mentors with a new and essential transformational practice that challenges deficit-based notions of protégés, questions their forced adaptation to dominant ideology, counters the marginalization and minoritization of young people of color, and endows them with voice, power and choice to achieve in society while validating their culture and values. Critical mentoring places youth at the center of the process, challenging norms of adult and institutional authority and notions of saviorism to create collaborative partnerships with youth and communities that recognize there are multiple sources of expertise and knowledge. Torie Weiston-Serdan outlines the underlying foundations of critical race theory, cultural competence and intersectionality, describes how collaborative mentoring works in practice in terms of dispositions and structures, and addresses the implications of rethinking about the purposes and delivery of mentoring services, both for mentors themselves and the organizations for which they work. Each chapter ends with a set of salient questions to ask and key actions to take. These are meant to move the reader from thought to action and provide a basis for discussion. This book offers strategies that are immediately applicable and will create a process that is participatory, emancipatory and transformative. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Weison-Serdan’s aims are certainly in the right direction. Her goals are exactly what is needed and what I hope to accomplish personally when I mentor youth. She identifies the right issues that often hold people back. She rightly points out that the intersectionality of these issues can combine to hold back many individuals. Simply being black or a lesbian is relatively easy to guide. But in reality, most youth encounter multiple issues – being a black lesbian from an impoverished background. Those multiples require more careful parsing of how to deal with life.
This book, however, does seem to have some foundational limitations. It’s very short, and it deals with its topic at a very high level. It labels itself as “practical,” but it contains an abundance of theory. I want to hear more stories and more qualitative data showing how these principles operate. At times, it accomplishes this, but most of the time, it just stays in abstractions. It needs to be double the size (to 230 pages, say) with anonymized stories showing how this works. At that length, it would still not be too long.
After this book has been published in 2017, one of its topics (critical race theory) has entered into most American households. This book does not politicize the issue (as television commentators have since), but rather shows how this thread traces through so many Americans’ experiences. As such, it does provide a good, solid, apolitical introduction to the issue that shows that critical race theory possesses nothing to fear.
This book hopes to hit the market of youth mentors. That’s not a huge market, but there aren’t a ton of books that look at mentoring in depth. The theoretical perspective it offers is needed, but it needs to be supplemented by everyday stories, especially since it’s marketed as “practical.” As this book correctly asserts, mentoring requires some degree of training to avoid a “white savior” syndrome and unhealthy power dynamics. This book can help mentors equip themselves to help their mentees (or “protegés,” in this book’s vocabulary). It’s short and accessible. I’d just like to see less telling and more showing how this theory gets fleshed out. ( )