Eclectic critical conversations as a strategy for learning in professional contexts

Presents the phenomenon of eclectic critical conversations (ECC) within the context of mentoring within professional and vocational qualifications. Uses an impressionistic, triune method of presentation in that three different autoethnographic perspectives combine to form one holistic picture of the phenomenon. Contends that ECCs inform an understanding of professional learning within self-directed educational frameworks, responding conceptually and critically to the challenges of transdisciplinary enquiry and action- or project-based learning across disciplinary borders, and that more closely exploring the ECC as a form of communication has the capacity to contribute to an understanding of the affordances of facilitation, mentoring, career counselling, coaching and professional development in professional practice programmes and vocational education more broadly Source: National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand Licence.