Mentorship in Teacher Education: The Impact of Covid-19 in Third World Contexts
The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a major upheaval in the teaching and learning process worldwide. It brought about unprecedented challenges to education that has undoubtedly and forever changed the architecture of education. It has altered the traditional roles and relationships of mentors and t...
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2022
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| Summary: | The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a major upheaval in the teaching
and learning process worldwide. It brought about unprecedented
challenges to education that has undoubtedly and forever changed
the architecture of education. It has altered the traditional roles and
relationships of mentors and their protégés as much as it changes the
roles of teachers as they shift to e-mentoring after adopting blended
education. A precondition for e-mentoring is the availability of and
access to Information and Communication Technology gadgets and
infrastructure, coupled with digital literacy. Effective mentorship has
been hampered by a dearth of ICT infrastructure, the cost of internet
services as well as the skills shortage among advanced career teachers
who are mostly digital immigrants. This article focuses on the shift to
virtual learning and the need of school authorities to actively support
e-mentoring programmes within their schools if they are to derive any
meaningful benefits from mentoring. |
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