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Never Knowingly Oversold: a watchword for tutoring and mentoring schemes?
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Professor Sinclair Goodlad,
Imperial College,
London.
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Examples are given of some of the many uses to which tutoring and mentoring
have been put. Yet, despite the volume of activity, there are still many things that
we do not know about tutoring and mentoring, and on which research needs to
be conducted. Until we know more, we need to establish precise, and limited,
objectives for schemes and to beware of over-selling the ideas lest we discredit
them.
Meanwhile, there are certain matters that, if not attended to, can cause schemes
to fail. Seven are examined. Participants are invited to consider during the
conference if the list offered accords with their experience or needs to be
modified.
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About the
Author
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Professor Sinclair Goodlad, Director of the Humanities Programme, Imperial
College of Science, Technology & Medicine, has taught in India and at MIT, and
has been a visiting associate at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1975, he
started the tutoring scheme known as ÔThe Pimlico ConnectionÕ on which some
180 UK schemes and many overseas, are modelled. He has written and edited a
number of books about tutoring, including Students as Tutors and Mentors (Kogan
Page, 1995) and Mentoring and Tutoring by Students (Kogan Page, 1998). One of
his recent books, The Quest for Quality: Sixteen forms of heresy in higher education
(SRHE & Open University Press, 1995) locates tutors in the wider context of a
sytematic philosophy of higher education. With Stephanie McIvor, he has
recently completed a study of extending the ÔtutoringÕ idea to museum
interpretation Ð Museum Volunteers (Routledge, 1998)
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Contact Details
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Exhibition Road, London SW7 2BX. Telephone +44 171 594 8752
Fax +44 171 594 8759
e-mail: s.goodlad@ic.ac.uk
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