Constructivists' Use of Mentoring for Success in Broadcast Academe [electronic resource] / Kathryn Smoot Egan.
A study considered women in broadcast communications academe who achieve their own purposes to have one of two epistemological perspectives: constructivist or proceduralist (non-constructivist). Women in broadcast academe were surveyed (N=428) and interviewed in depth (N=14) to measure epistemologic...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | A study considered women in broadcast communications academe who achieve their own purposes to have one of two epistemological perspectives: constructivist or proceduralist (non-constructivist). Women in broadcast academe were surveyed (N=428) and interviewed in depth (N=14) to measure epistemological perspectives and mentoring experiences. The women studied, most of whom were mentored, believe they can succeed in academe on their own terms, according to their dreams and self images. They tend to be constructivists, or proceduralists guided by womeone they trust to identify their personal reward system, within academe. (Two tables of data are included. Contains 19 references.) (Author/NKA) |
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| Item Description: | ERIC Document Number: ED361806. ERIC Note: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (76th, Kansas City, MO, August 11-14, 1993). |
| Physical Description: | 24 p. |