Mentoring in the Writing Café: Identity, Belonging and Ownership

The historical legacy of the coffeehouse, the predecessor to the café, is rooted in a culture of community, collaboration and social activity. In January 2014, the Learning Development team at Plymouth University opened the Writing Café; a developmental, creative space that offers the potential to r...

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Autor principal:	Christie Pritchard
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Publicado:	Association for Learning Development in Higher Education (ALDinHE) 2015
Materias:	Identity writing centres academic literacies writing cafe peer mentoring students as partners Theory and practice of education LB5-3640
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/c9842ff334b842228e07c06e48001ac0
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:c9842ff334b842228e07c06e48001ac02021-11-29T14:03:18ZMentoring in the Writing Café: Identity, Belonging and Ownership10.47408/jldhe.v0i0.3051759-667Xhttps://doaj.org/article/c9842ff334b842228e07c06e48001ac02015-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://repl.gianfj.com/index.php/jldhe/article/view/305https://doaj.org/toc/1759-667XThe historical legacy of the coffeehouse, the predecessor to the café, is rooted in a culture of community, collaboration and social activity. In January 2014, the Learning Development team at Plymouth University opened the Writing Café; a developmental, creative space that offers the potential to reframe their work and provides the opportunity to work in partnership with students. Along with serving great coffee and locally sourced food, conversations and activities in the café provide a space for students and staff to meet and discuss writing practices and gain support from the Learning Development team and trained student Writing Mentors. This paper reports on a small-scale action research project undertaken to investigate to what extent the Writing Mentors benefitted from being partners in this project; as co-designers, advisors, writing mentors, baristas and more. Christie PritchardAssociation for Learning Development in Higher Education (ALDinHE)articleIdentitywriting centresacademic literacieswriting cafepeer mentoringstudents as partnersTheory and practice of educationLB5-3640ENJournal of Learning Development in Higher Education (2015)
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description	The historical legacy of the coffeehouse, the predecessor to the café, is rooted in a culture of community, collaboration and social activity. In January 2014, the Learning Development team at Plymouth University opened the Writing Café; a developmental, creative space that offers the potential to reframe their work and provides the opportunity to work in partnership with students. Along with serving great coffee and locally sourced food, conversations and activities in the café provide a space for students and staff to meet and discuss writing practices and gain support from the Learning Development team and trained student Writing Mentors. This paper reports on a small-scale action research project undertaken to investigate to what extent the Writing Mentors benefitted from being partners in this project; as co-designers, advisors, writing mentors, baristas and more.
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Mentoring in the Writing Café: Identity, Belonging and Ownership

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