HomeBlogUndergraduate Research Mentoring Undergraduate Research in Global Contextsby Jessie L. MooreDecember 8, 2022 Share: Section NavigationSkip section navigationIn this sectionPodcasts – Home 60-Second SoTL Limed: Teaching with a Twist Making College “Worth It” Special Series First-Year Seminars Land Acknowledgement 60-Second SoTL – Episode 14 This week’s episode features an article from the Journal on Excellence in College Teaching and explores how faculty and staff support learning and development when they mentor undergraduate research in global contexts: Cruz, Laura, Maureen Vandermaas-Peeler, Amy L. Allocco, and Kate Patch. (2022). “Mentoring Undergraduate Research in Global Contexts: Insights From a National Study.” Journal on Excellence in College Teaching 33 (4): 21-35. The study stems from a collaboration among the American Association of Colleges & Universities, the Forum on Education Abroad, and Elon University’s Center for Research on Global Engagement. View a transcript of this episode. The episode was hosted by Jessie L. Moore, Director of the Center for Engaged Learning and Professor of Professional Writing & Rhetoric. 60-Second SoTL is produced by the Center for Engaged Learning at Elon University. Read More about Mentoring Undergraduate Research in Global Contexts Allocco, Amy L., and Anya Fredsell. (2018). “Mentoring in Global Contexts: Embodying Feminist Ethnography in South India.” PURM: Perspectives on Undergraduate Research & Mentoring 7 (1). https://www.elon.edu/u/academics/undergraduate-research/purm/wp-content/uploads/sites/923/2019/06/Allocco_Fredsell_Main.pdf [Open Access] Allocco, Amy L., Maureen Vandermaas-Peeler, Eric Hall, Caroline Ketcham, Mussa Idris, Jennifer A. Hamel, and David J. (Sandy) Marshall. (2022). “Undergraduate Research in the Global Context: Models and Practices for High-Quality Mentoring.” Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning 30 (1): 106-123. https://doi.org/10.1080/13611267.2022.2031084 American Association of Colleges and Universities. (2022). Mentored Undergraduate Research in Global Contexts (Report). https://www.aacu.org/office-of-global-citizenship-for-campus-community-and-careers/mentored-undergraduate-research-in-global-contexts [Open Access] Patch, Kate H., and Louis M. Berends. (2020). Undergraduate Research Abroad: Approaches, Models and Challenges. NAFSA Association of International Educators. Vandermaas-Peeler, Maureen, Amy L. Allocco, and Cynthia Fair. (2018). “What to Know Before You Go: Benefits and Challenges of Conducting Undergraduate Research in Global Contexts.” Perspectives on Undergraduate Research Mentoring 7 (1). https://www.elon.edu/u/academics/undergraduate-research/purm/wp-content/uploads/sites/923/2019/06/VandermaasPeeler_Allocco_Fair_Main.pdf [Open Access] Explore the Center’s Resources on Mentoring Salient Practices Following an extensive review of the literature on mentoring undergraduate research, ten salient practices emerged which support effective mentoring of undergraduate researchers. These practices can be used to develop a mentoring pedagogy of high quality. Returning to a Constellation Model: Mentor, Mentoring, and The Odyssey As we have articulated, one of the challenges of the traditional mentoring model resides in the being-all-things to another set of assumptions built into it. 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Before talking with the mentors, I had asked their students… Conceptualizing Mentoring Constellations in Study Abroad: Students’ Perspectives What kind of development and/or support do your mentors provide? It was necessary at some point to figure out how the knowledge I was obtaining at university could be applied. Therefore … I worked at a biotech company where I… Mentoring Constellations in Global Contexts Recent scholarship emphasizes the essential role of mentoring to support student engagement in undergraduate research (UR) and global learning and highlights the potential of blending these high-impact practices (HIPs) for enhanced learning and relationship-building (Allocco et al. 2022; Whitehead et… Mentoring Magic: Mentored Undergraduate Research in Global Contexts Making College “Worth It” – Season 2, Episode 1 Dawn Whitehead and Maureen Vandermaas-Peeler, two of the co-editors of Mentored Undergraduate Research in Global Contexts: Integrated High-Impact Practices for Student Success, join our podcast to talk about the intersection of… Using Generative AI to Support Global Learning Could Leave Cultural Lessons Lost in Translation I feel a little silly, but also proud to say that I was able to, at least minimally, keep my language learning streak alive while I took a vacation to Europe last month. Since the throes of COVID, I’ve been… Facilitating Integration of and Reflection on Engaged and Experiential Learning Since 2019, I’ve been working with my colleague Paul Miller to create an institutional toolkit for fostering both students’ self-reflection and their mentoring conversations with peers, staff, and faculty in order to deepen students’ educational experiences. Our institution, Elon University,… Browse all blog posts on global learning
