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With a new introduction and afterword, this revised second edition is a practical, engaging exploration of mentoring and its power to transform learning. Filled with inspiring vignettes, Mentor shows how anyone who teaches can become a successful mentor to students. Topics covered include adult learning and development; the search for meaning as a motive for learning; education as a transformational journey; how adults change and develop; how learning changes the learner; barriers and incentives to learning and growth; and guiding adults through difficult transitions.

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• Foreword(p. v)
• Preface to the Original Edition(p. ix)
• Preface(p. xix)
• The Author(p. xxxi)
• Part 1 Adult Learning as Development
• 1 First Shards: The Search for Meaning as a Motive for Learning(p. 3)
• 2 Mentors, Myths, and Metamorphosis: Education as a Transformational Journey(p. 17)
• 3 Maps of Transformation: How Adults Change and Develop(p. 43)
• Part 2 Learning as a Transformative Journey
• 4 The Deep and Savage Way: The Unsettling First Steps of an Educational Journey(p. 89)
• 5 The Dynamic of Transformation: How Learning Changes the Learner(p. 125)
• 6 Returning Home: Helping Adults Integrate New Insights(p. 147)
• Part 3 Fostering About Learning
• 7 The Ecology of Adult Learning: Barriers and Incentives to Learning and Growth(p. 181)
• 8 The Yoda Factor: Guiding Adults Through Difficult Transistions(p. 203)
• 9 The Art of the Mentor: Limits and Possibilities(p. 231)
• Afterword(p. 249)
• Notes(p. 263)
• References(p. 269)
• Appendix(p. 279)
• Index(p. 281)

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Laurent A. Daloz is a senior fellow at the Whildbey Institute and principal with Sharon Daloz Parks for the New Commons. He served for many years as a faculty member with Vermont College, Johnson State College, and Lesley College and has taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Columbia Teachers Colleges.