ABSTRACT

What then distinguishes the sense in which a mentor is a learner? It is that we concentrate on learning from, with, and for the sake of our students, each one, individually. And, in the practices of helping our students develop the freedom and responsibility of scholars, we are acting as scholars as well. That is, we devote our intellectual abilities to creating dialogical learning with our students. From these inquiries, important discoveries will emerge for and about ourselves and our students, which beforehand we had not known. Mentors, as well as students, experience wonder.