Redefining the Proxemics of the Mentorship

Redefining the Proxemics of the Mentorship

Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 20
ISBN13: 9781522574385|ISBN10: 1522574387|EISBN13: 9781522574392
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7438-5.ch006
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Schreiner, Christopher S. "Redefining the Proxemics of the Mentorship." Faculty Roles and Changing Expectations in the New Age, edited by Yukiko Inoue-Smith, IGI Global, 2019, pp. 81-100. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7438-5.ch006

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Schreiner, C. S. (2019). Redefining the Proxemics of the Mentorship. In Y. Inoue-Smith (Ed.), Faculty Roles and Changing Expectations in the New Age (pp. 81-100). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7438-5.ch006

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Schreiner, Christopher S. "Redefining the Proxemics of the Mentorship." In Faculty Roles and Changing Expectations in the New Age, edited by Yukiko Inoue-Smith, 81-100. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2019. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7438-5.ch006

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Abstract

The sociopolitical controversies on campus that have resulted in “safe spaces” have pressured traditional structures based on proxemics, such as the mentorship, to reinvent themselves or disappear. In the chapter, “proximity” itself is defined not in terms of spatial contiguity but as an attentional structure by which the mentee achieves an intimate understanding at a distance of the objective achievements in teaching and writing that distinguish her mentor and other role models and that provoke acts of creative mimesis and exegesis by the mentee. Inspired by the ancient Stoic practice of the “care of the self” as explicated by Michel Foucault, the crux of the redefined mentored relation is not inculcating knowledge but guiding the growth of the mentee's critical consciousness in preparation for a career and a life well-lived, befitting a noble spirit. Since the focus of the redefined mentored relation privileges distance and objective spirit (via the critical study of works) over personal interaction, the scholarly autonomy of the mentee is a noteworthy learning outcome.

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