Philosophical Mentoring in Qualitative Research

Kelly W. Guyotte is Associate Professor of Qualitative Research at the University of Alabama, USA, and Coordinator of the Educational Research Program. Inspired by her background in the visual arts, her research interests include gender and equity in higher education, artful inquiry practices, STEAM education, and teaching/mentoring in qualitative inquiry.Jennifer R. Wolgemuth is Associate Professor of Educational Research at the University of South Florida, USA, and Director of the Graduate Certificate in Qualitative Research. Drawing on critical theories, she explores inquiry as an agential process that investigates and creates the lives and communities to and for which researchers are responsible.

• Introduction: Why Philosophical Mentoring in Qualitative Research? Mentoring Moment: Willful Habit 1. Becoming Feminist Swarm: Inquiring Mentorship Methodologically Together Mentoring Moment: The Mentor I Never Knew I Needed 2. Flipping Mentoring: Feminist Materialist Praxis as Quiet Activism Mentoring Moment: Lost in the Becomings 3. Kinning and Composting: Mentorship/t in Post Qualitative Research Mentoring Moment: for kwg 4. Ruinous Mentorship Mentoring Moment: The Voice of Calm Mentoring Moment: Learning is Water Reflection 5. Unfinished: (Post)Philosophically Informed Mentoring and Relational Ethics Mentoring Moment: She Said I Should Call Her Jenni Mentoring Moment: My North Star 6. Mentoring as Radical Interconnectivity and Love: Post-Oppositional and De/colonial Approaches to Qualitative Research Mentoring in Higher Education Mentoring Moment: A Mentoring Moment with My Mentor Mentoring Moment: Mentorship as Radical Care 7. The Importance of Relationships in Mentorship and Methodological Identities Mentoring Moment: Mentoring Amalgam Mentoring Moment: Mentor and Athena 8. "I don’t want feelings. I want tacos.": Toward a New Materialist Mentoring Practice Mentoring Moment: Culturally Relevant Mentorship in Motion Mentoring Moment: A Qualitative Mentoring Process Diagram in Haiku 9. String Figure Mentoring in a Qualitative Inquiry Assemblage Mentoring Moment: Mentoring as a Collective Relationality 10. Mentoring (Maybe) as a Philosophical Event Mentoring Moment: Before the Beginning: A Poem for My Mentor, Dr. Susan Copeland

"Finally! Too often mentoring gets flattened and overly simplified. But here Dr. Guyotte and Dr. Wolgemuth have curated and edited a volume that offers conditions for possibility, opportunities for mentoring to matter differently, and possibilities for liberation. Most appreciated is the ways the collection of chapters, images, poems, and mentoring moments reveal mentoring from the perspectives of students, junior and senior scholars all committed to Philosophical Mentoring in Qualitative Research: Collaborating and Inquiring Together." -- M. Francyne Huckaby, Associate Dean, TCU School of Interdisciplinary Studies, Professor of Curriculum Studies, TCU College of Education & Center for Public Education, USA"This edited collection begins with the premise that mentoring is a relational practice and that such relations need not be hierarchical in order. This necessarily inventive orientation shifts the terrain upon which mentoring is understood, even practiced: power relations disperse; subject distinctions (of mentors, mentees) blur; newly creative practices emerge. It is here that this important text takes seriously the notion of mentoring as a philosophical practice, one that necessarily entails a way of relational living that exceeds the traditional bounds of the academy and the ordering of method. As a result, this text will be useful—even inspiring—to mentors, mentees, and mentor-mentees alike." -- Aaron M. Kuntz, Frost Professor of Education and Human Development, Department Chair, Counseling, Recreation, School Psychology, Florida International University, USA"Philosophical Mentoring in Qualitative Research: Collaborating and Inquiring Together addresses the diverse forms that qualitative mentoring might take, inviting readers to consider mentoring as philosophical practice. In this edited collection, authors describe the productive possibilities of engaging with uncertainty, discomfort, and the unexpected within relational approaches to mentorship that value caring and ethical connections with humans, non-humans and the more-than-human. Thought-provoking and refreshing, the book engages readers in envisioning new possibilities with respect to how qualitative researchers are always becoming -- whether novice or experienced, or in formal or informal spaces. Filled with poems, narratives, conversations, and images, this collage of chapters and mentoring moments provides a dazzling array of alternative approaches to thinking about and engaging in mentoring relationships. Read on and savor!" -- Kathryn Roulston, Professor of Qualitative Research, Department of Lifelong Education, Administration, and Policy, University of Georgia, USA