Hierarchy to heterarchy, shifting the power imbalance in the mentoring relationship
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چکیده
This article reports upon a mentoring self-review led by early childhood professional leaders working within the Central Kids Kindergarten Trust (Central Kids)1. It challenges the contemporary hierarchical, positional leader approach to mentoring and suggests that the power in the mentoring relationship needs to shift to a consultative and collaborative heterarchy leadership style. This commentary offers a reflective position from a four year mentoring self-review that challenged the notion that the leaders in early childhood settings should take responsibility for the pivotal role of mentoring support for mentees to professionally develop.
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