Are school-based mentors adequately equipped to fulfil their roles? A case study in learning to teach accountancy

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dc.contributor.authordos Reis, Karen
dc.contributor.authorBraund, Martin
dc.date.accessioned2022-11-01T07:20:57Z
dc.date.available2022-11-01T07:20:57Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractThis article reports on a study that explored how school-based teachers fulfilled their roles as mentors in response to challenges faced by pre-service teachers while learning to teach accounting. Pre-service teachers in their final year at a University of Technology in South Africa and practising teachers from six high schools participated in the study. Pre-service teachers e-mailed reflection journals on a weekly basis over a period of four months to the first author who is a teacher educator. Unstructured interviews were carried out with each pre-service teacher and their respective mentors. The results indicated that not all mentors assisted the pre-service teachers according to the expectations of their roles. Despite mentoring having the potential to enhance the preparation of pre-service teachers, in the cases studied it did not always yield positive results. It became clear that the cumulative nature of the accounting discipline requires a different type of mentoring from other disciplines. In fact, numerous factors revealed in the study influenced the failure and success of mentoring pre-service teachers. Many of these factors are ones over which the university has no control.en_US
dc.identifier.citationKaren dos Reis & Martin Braund (2019) Are School-Based Mentors Adequately Equipped to Fulfil Their Roles? A Case Study in Learning to Teach Accounting, Africa Education Review, 16:4, 17-36, 10.1080/18146627.2018.1460210en_US
dc.identifier.issn1814-6627
dc.identifier.uri10.1080/18146627.2018.1460210
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/8103
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherTaylor and Francis Groupen_US
dc.subjectMentorsen_US
dc.subjectPre-service teachersen_US
dc.subjectAccountingen_US
dc.subjectLearningen_US
dc.subjectTeachingen_US
dc.titleAre school-based mentors adequately equipped to fulfil their roles? A case study in learning to teach accountancyen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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