ABSTRACT
Mentoring in context requires examining the broader influences on teaching and learning and specifically on mentees’ classroom contexts. This means that mentors need to develop awareness of the differences in cultures, societies, education systems, and institutions that influence classroom and mentoring dynamics. They also need to develop skills for sorting these layers of interwoven factors in order to understand their mentees’ contexts. The chapter also shows how self-awareness plays a role and how mentors and mentees may need to reflect on their attitudes and expectations, particularly those related to their personal beliefs or values. In the end, mentors are encouraged to begin the process of exploring broader interwoven influences on their mentees’ classroom dynamics and of developing self-awareness.
