The Mentoring Networks of Outdoor Educators

Riley, Michael

doi:10.18666/jorel-2019-v11-i3-9519

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“…These mentorships were essential opportunities for staff to refine skills, gain insight, and form meaningful relationships with leadership staff. Several studies note the high potential for mentorships as a way to transfer skill sets and train upcoming generations of camp leaders (e.g., Riley, 2019; Shooter et al, 2009). However, when women experience inequitable access to these opportunities, their development as leaders is disadvantaged, and the systemic barriers they face in the leadership pipeline become more difficult to overcome.…”

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Day Camp Leadership: Women's Experiences with Gender Bias, Inequity, and Double Binds

DeVona,

Weiner

2024

Journal of Experiential Education

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Background: Despite representing half of approximately 1.5 million camp counsellors in the United States, women in outdoor experiential education (OEE) continually face barriers that constrain them to lead according to restrictive gendered expectations. While scholars have studied this issue across a variety of OEE contexts, summer day camps are largely absent from empirical dialogue about gender and leadership. Purpose: Presently, we explore the impact of gender stereotypes on women's experiences as leaders inside one summer day camp. Methodology/Approach: We employ a qualitative, single-case study to interview five camp professionals about their experiences with gender and leadership. Findings/Conclusions: We find the construction of leadership within the camp rewarded men's agentic behaviors and punished women who led similarly. In addition, men who showed communally-oriented leadership traits were recognized as exceptional leaders, while women lost promotions and were reprimanded for the same behaviors. This gendered construction of leadership manifested as women having inequitable access to leadership development pipelines compared to men, especially related to representation, informal mentoring, and promotion. Implications: Considering these biased constructions and their impact on women leaders, we present opportunities for organizational and systemic change within day camps.

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Day Camp Leadership: Women's Experiences with Gender Bias, Inequity, and Double Binds

DeVona,

Weiner

2024

Journal of Experiential Education

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Exploring Early Career Extension Agents’ Perceptions of Their Mentors, Best Liked Coworkers, and Organizational Commitment

Harder

Narine

Benge

et al. 2021

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Forming positive relationships is an important part of the onboarding process for new Extension professionals. Often, formal mentors are assigned to new employees, but they also develop relationships with other colleagues in the organization. Past studies have found quality relationships with mentors and coworkers can positively influence job outcomes such as employee turnover, organizational performance, and organizational commitment. This study examined the perceptions that early career Extension agents in Florida, Georgia, and Mississippi had of their formal mentors and best-liked coworkers using a causal-comparative design and online survey. Results showed early career Extension agents tended to have marginally positive views of their relationships with their formal mentors but perceived high-quality relationships with their coworkers. Neither type of relationship was significantly related to organizational commitment, but increased frequency of contact with the formal mentor was significantly related to more positive perceptions of the mentoring relationship. Extension organizations should provide structured guidelines for frequency of interactions between mentors and mentees to help improve those relationships.

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The Mentoring Networks of Outdoor Educators

Cited by 2 publications

References 28 publications

Day Camp Leadership: Women's Experiences with Gender Bias, Inequity, and Double Binds

Day Camp Leadership: Women's Experiences with Gender Bias, Inequity, and Double Binds

Exploring Early Career Extension Agents’ Perceptions of Their Mentors, Best Liked Coworkers, and Organizational Commitment

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