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Acknowledgements |
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Glossary of terms |
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1.1 What this monograph is about |
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1.2 The new way of being together |
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The definition of mentoring |
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The benefits of mentoring |
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What is effective mentoring? |
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What makes a good mentor? |
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The mentors and mentoring in this research |
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The mentees -- early childhood beginning teachers |
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1.4 Social media, Facebook and our changing sense of being |
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The phenomenon of social media |
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Who are we really? Heidegger's challenge to our virtual identity |
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1.5 Social media and the early childhood teaching sector |
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Researcher as participant |
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Research design using phenomenological methods |
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Links to the rest of the research |
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Justification of using phenomenology in mixed-methods |
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3 What is actually happening on Facebook? |
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3.1 Analysis of Facebook pages |
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3.2 Latent versus manifest data from dialogue-in-text |
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3.3 Hot topics, sharing, emotionally driven expressions and unexpected phenomena |
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Coding: emerging themes in dialogue |
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Coding: emerging nature of dialogue |
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3.5 Condescending and conflicting mentoring |
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Discussions about mentoring |
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Unresponsive mentoring versus mentoring in abstract thinking |
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Rants about theory and practice |
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4 Implications for future EC teachers |
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4.1 Facebook culture in the early childhood sector |
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4.2 Destabilisation in the virtual world of mentoring |
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4.3 Intentionality: what are you doing here? |
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5.1 Conclusive statements and recommendations |
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Is Facebook just a platform for ranting? |
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Is it about gratification? |
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Is the intentionality behind mentoring authentic? |
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Is the engagement on Facebook destabilising the profession? |
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5.2 What impact is it really having? |
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5.3 The next phase of research |
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Index |
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