ABSTRACT
Chapter 3 contextualizes the multisite study conducted in 2013–2014 by introducing the two research sites, HealthTech Industries (or HealthTech, HTI), and the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities (RCAH) at Michigan State University (MSU). A discussion begins in Chapter 3 about the HTI and RCAH participants who contributed to this study, and the unique mentoring possibilities and problems they experience every day. The methodology and methods (field observations, individual and focus group interviews, and participant-drawn mentoring networks) are described and analyzed in this chapter in relation to the ways mentoring functions for HTI employees and RCAH graduates. What emerges is a set of practices that reveal how mentoring acts as a rhetorical tool for building and maintaining moments of experiential learning.
