Buddy up! Student mentoring in a social work undergraduate programme

Abstract

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Peer Mentoring: A Case Study in Developing Legislative Advocacy Skills among Social Work Students

“…Although utilized among many professions, particularly within the healthcare arena, Walsh and Kinney (2018) note that student peer mentoring is largely nonexistent within social work educational programs in the United States. This absence may not, however, be a global phenomenon; Simpson et al (2022) note that, "internationally, higher education providers have embraced peer mentoring" (p. 3). Peer mentoring in higher education often involves upper-level students sharing their knowledge and experiences with under-classmates as they model appropriate behaviors and lead discussions with peers to enhance learning.…”

“…The overall practice of mentoring has many forms and uses. Simpson et al (2022) describe types of mentoring, such as classic (one-to-one) mentoring, friend to friend, group mentoring, mentoring across different agencies and professional disciplines, multiple mentors, distant mentoring, peer mentoring, and reciprocal mentoring" (p. 1). This case study incorporates the strategic use of three types within the added context of peer mentoring: (1) individual peer mentors assigned to a small faceto-face student learner group, (2) multiple peer mentors interacting together faceto-face with small student learner groups, and (3) several distant/remote peer mentors assigned to two or three groups of remote online learners.…”