Professional Dissertations DMin

Date of Award

2010

Document Type

Project Report

Degree Name

Doctor of Ministry

College

Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary

Program

Doctor of Ministry DMin

First Advisor

R. Clifford Jones

Second Advisor

Trevor O'Reggio

Third Advisor

Martin Klingbeil

Abstract

Problem

Many of the students of Helderberg College do not utilize the mentoring program fully and staff members lack the time and training for doing faith-based mentoring. Additionally, both staff and students have expressed the challenges that arise from a mentor-mentee relationship which is often intercultural.

Method

A mixed methodology study using the following instruments with two populations of Helderberg College: a survey-questionnaire by 93 fulltime registered student mentees present at a weekly assembly (3rd Nov. 2008); and a survey-questionnaire by 28 mentoring staff (4th Nov. 2008). Further, 6 interviews with mentors on 29th July- 3rd Aug. 2009 and 10 interviews with mentees on 29th May -20th July 2009, were conducted.

Results

There is a need for mentoring of students at Helderberg College especially in the first year, even though not all student mentees take advantage of the service offered. While most of the students (81%) see a need for mentoring, in practice only 51% use the facility that is provided for them by the institution. Mentoring is largely an intercultural experience, as most staff mentors cross cultural and linguistic barriers in helping students to adjust culturally. Mentoring is also faith-based as it affords enough opportunity for spiritual growth to the student mentee through their staff mentors. Yet, not all mentees view it as such and not all mentors maximize their opportunities with students.

Conclusions

While there is room for improvement in the mentoring program as a whole, enough influence and defining moments are experienced by both the staff mentors and the student mentees of Helderberg College. I

Subject Area

Mentoring in Christian education; Mentoring in education; Multicultural education; Helderberg College

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.

DOI

https://dx.doi.org/10.32597/dmin/521

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