Supporting and Inspiring Native Youth: Chapter 2
Critical Mentoring
Introduction
In this unit, we’ll explore Critical Mentoring* as a framework for creating the conditions needed to support and inspire Native youth.
Key terms/concepts:
- Creating conditions
- Critical Mentoring
- Youth-centric
- Interdependent sense of self
- Group mentoring
- Youth-initiated mentoring
- Natural mentoring
*Critical Mentoring was coined by Dr. Torie Weiston-Serdan in her book Critical Mentoring: A Practical Guide. This chapter will discuss this term as well as add to the concept with other frameworks and models
Curriculum and Application
Curriculum Topics
Application
Additional Resource
- Creating Conditions
- What Research Can Tell Us
- Critical Mentoring Framework
- Interdependent Sense of Self
- Different Perspectives
- Mentoring Program Design
- Mentoring Program Design (Matching Activity)
- Application: Critical Mentoring – Community Involvement
- Application: Critical Mentoring – Examine Your Role as a Mentor
- Reflection
- Association for Psychological Science (2017): Declaration of Interdependence: Hazel R. Markus Discusses the Science of Interconnection
- Fryberg, S., & Leavitt, P. (2014). A Sociocultural Analysis of High-Risk Native American Children in Schools. In J. Burack & L. Schmidt (Eds.), Cultural and Contextual Perspectives on Developmental Risk and Well-Being (Interdisciplinary Approaches to Knowledge and Development, pp. 57-80). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511920165.006
- National Mentoring Resource Center. What Works in Mentoring? Group Mentoring.
- National Mentoring Resource Center (2015). Youth-Initiated Mentoring
- TEDx (2018). “Critical Mentoring- Because Young People Deserve the Best of Us by Torie Weiston-Serdan”
- University of California, Berkeley (2015). YPAR Hub. Retrieved from: http://yparhub.berkeley.edu/learn-about-ypar/
- Weiston-Serdan, Torie (2017). Critical Mentoring: A Practical Guide. Sterling, Virginia: Stylus Publishing.
- Creating Conditions
- What Research Can Tell Us
- Critical Mentoring Framework
- Interdependent Sense of Self
- Different Perspectives
- Mentoring Program Design
- Mentoring Program Design (Matching Activity)
- Application: Critical Mentoring – Community Involvement
- Application: Critical Mentoring – Examine Your Role as a Mentor
- Reflection
- Association for Psychological Science (2017): Declaration of Interdependence: Hazel R. Markus Discusses the Science of Interconnection
- Fryberg, S., & Leavitt, P. (2014). A Sociocultural Analysis of High-Risk Native American Children in Schools. In J. Burack & L. Schmidt (Eds.), Cultural and Contextual Perspectives on Developmental Risk and Well-Being (Interdisciplinary Approaches to Knowledge and Development, pp. 57-80). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511920165.006
- National Mentoring Resource Center. What Works in Mentoring? Group Mentoring.
- National Mentoring Resource Center (2015). Youth-Initiated Mentoring
- TEDx (2018). “Critical Mentoring- Because Young People Deserve the Best of Us by Torie Weiston-Serdan”
- University of California, Berkeley (2015). YPAR Hub. Retrieved from: http://yparhub.berkeley.edu/learn-about-ypar/
- Weiston-Serdan, Torie (2017). Critical Mentoring: A Practical Guide. Sterling, Virginia: Stylus Publishing.
