Volume VII Issue 1, 06/2009 - EXTRACT

Volume VII Issue 1, 06/2009: Taster

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Volume VII Issue 1, 6/2009 - ISSN 1815-804X

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Editors Comments

I am delighted to welcome you to the summer issue of 2009 in which we continue with our tradition of reviewing the research based practice of mentoring and coaching. Our tradition has always been to understand the intimate partnership between the theory and the practice and the emphasis oscillates from one edition to the next. In this edition the emphasis is on the sharing of the practice of mentoring and coaching and we have some very creative and informative papers from which we can all learn something new.

It is interesting to observe that as the profession develops and evolves contributions to our book review section reflects the increase of new texts being published at an increasing rate. We have reviews on a number of texts that make a significant contribution to the debate of mentoring and coaching in this edition.

The journal has two main sections: Reviewed Section and Professional Section. The Reviewed Section has three categories:

• Personal View
• Research Based
• Debate or discussion

And the Professional Section also has three:

• Professional skills
• Cases of practice
• Issue Focus

The Reviewed Section rigorously follows conventions of all academic journals in the form of double blind peer review Harvard style referencing. The Professional Section is subject to rigorous editorial review. Both sections provide good quality writing and interesting comment.

We also welcome book reviews.

 

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Reviewed Section

We have two well researched papers on mentoring with the first article in our reviewed section by David  Okurame introducing commitment to mentor role intention and which explores the possible influence gender might have on the commitment to the mentoring role. The second article in this section is by Debra Cureton, discussing the implementation of mentoring as a staff development tool in Higher Education Institutions.

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Professional Section

We have an interesting array of papers in this edition, presenting the different experiences of mentoring and coaching by our authors. The first paper in this section is by Peter Rütter, offering us a fascinating insight into mentoring from the ancient Japanese traditions of the Samurai. The second paper is by Graham Ward introducing the use of transitional space and how group coaching changes people. The third paper is an address to EMCC Luxembourg earlier this year by Jacques Limoges. The fourth paper is a personal account by Alison Hodge, sharing her experiences of a group supervision session. The fifth is an interesting account by Valerie Abl and Anne Brockbank on an experimental workshop of peer-coaching. The sixth paper is by Sue Blow who shares with us how to use creative problem-solving techniques in coaching practice and the final word goes to Hans Fibbe who explores the limits of the coach.

Book Reviews

Due to the popularity of the recently published text by Bob Garvey, Paul Stokes and David Megginson entitled, Coaching and Mentoring: Theory and Practice, we have no less than two reviews to share with you, each of the reviews providing you with a different perspective. The first review is by David Clutterbuck and the second is a review by Gunnela Westlander who also offers a review on a book by Rose Ragins and Kathy Kram (Eds.) entitled, The Handbook of Mentoring at Work. Theory, Research and Practice. The third is a review of the Routledge Companion on International Coaching by Michel Moral, and Geoffrey Abbott. The final review is by Peter Thompson of Coach Yourself to Success

Once again I invite you to share your experiences and research to the ongoing debate of our profession by submitting your contributions in either the Review or Professional Sections.

Angélique du Toit

Managing Editor

 

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