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'We are history in the making and we are walking together to change things for the better': Exploring the flows and ripples of learning in a mentoring program for Indigenous young people

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posted on 2024-11-14, 19:12 authored by Sarah O'SheaSarah O'Shea, Samantha McMahon, Amy Priestly, Gawaian Bodkin-Andrews, Valerie HarwoodValerie Harwood
This article explores the unique mentoring model that the Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience (AIME) has established to assist Australian Indigenous young people succeed educationally. AIME can be described as a structured educational mentoring programme, which recruits university students to mentor Indigenous high school students. The success of the programme is unequivocal, with the AIME Indigenous mentees completing high school and the transition to further education and employment at higher rates than their non-AIME Indigenous counterparts. This article reports on a study that sought to deeply explore the particular approach to mentoring that AIME adopts. The study drew upon interviews, observations and surveys with AIME staff, mentees and mentors and the focus in this article is on the surveys completed by the university mentors involved in the programme. Overall, there seems to be a discernible mutual reciprocity inherent in the learning outcomes of this mentoring programme; the mentors are learning along with the mentees. The article seeks to consider how AIME mentors reflect upon their learning in this programme and also how this pedagogic potential has been facilitated.

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O'Shea, S., McMahon, S., Priestly, A., Bodkin-Andrews, G. & Harwood, V. (2016). ‘We are history in the making and we are walking together to change things for the better’: Exploring the flows and ripples of learning in a mentoring program for Indigenous young people. Education as Change, 20 (1), 59-84.

Journal title

Education as Change

Volume

20

Issue

1

Pagination

59-84

Language

English

RIS ID

107249

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