EXPLORING DIGITAL PLATFORMS FOR MENTORING RESEARCH AND PRACTICE

Lee K. M., Yaprak Kemaloğlu P., Tan J.

III International conference of the International Lab for Innovative Social Research (ILIS) Research Methods in the Digital Society: areas and practices, Salerno, İtalya, 24 - 25 Kasım 2021, ss.9

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Özet Bildiri
  • Basıldığı Şehir: Salerno
  • Basıldığı Ülke: İtalya
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.9
  • Gazi Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

EXPLORING DIGITAL PLATFORMS FOR MENTORING RESEARCH AND PRACTICE

 

1Kwan Meng, Lee; 2Yaprak, Pinar; 3Tan, John

1Institute for Social Science Studies

Universiti Putra Malaysia

Serdang, Malaysia

Tel: +60133881285

Email: leekwanmeng@gmail.com

 

2Faculty of Sport Sciences

Gazi University

Ankara, Turkey

Tel: +905320662716

Emal: pinaryaprak@gmail.com

 

3CARE Singapore

Singapore.

Tel: +6594556946

Email: john@care.sg

 

 

Abstract

Mentoring have been about a caring, partnering relationship between the less experienced mentee with mentors who are more experienced where the goal is towards developmental outcomes through quality relationships. It involves support, respect and trust and role modelling. Research studies in mentoring helps to determine the contexts of how mentoring works, how they can work effectively, to whom are the compatible partners, and which specific individual it could work for. These studies seek to address the purposes of addressing the gap in existing mentoring practices, assessing the areas for further mentoring, how to improve the practice, determining the quality of the mentoring relationships, and establishing the shortcomings that need to be addressed. Many research designs have been employed for such mentoring practices and research on young people. However, from this literature review, there had hardly been any narrative on the research designs that employed digital tools and platforms which are important now in this digitalisation era. This review is therefore to explore the digital platforms and tools that could be employed in place of the traditional practices and research methodologies in mentoring research. The reviews were accessed from available literature from academic journals, and published chapters of studies reported in some mentoring books. Since a mentoring programme involves many contexts, different types of research designs and instrumentations are employed to achieve different mentoring objectives.

In this digital age, many digital platforms and tools have been developed for constructive interactions, evaluations, research studies and surveys, both in quantitative and qualitative studies.

Keywords: Mentoring research, digital platforms and tools, exploratory review