A Case Study of the Ellison Model's Use of Mentoring as an Approach Toward Inclusive Community Building
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@ Florida International Unviersity
Rice, Claire Michele
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The Ellison Executive Mentoring Inclusive Community Building (ICB) Model is a paradigm for initiating and implementing projects utilizing executives and professionals from a variety of fields and industries, university students, and pre-college students. The model emphasizes adherence to ethical values and promotes inclusiveness in community development. It is a hierarchical model in which actors in each succeeding level of operation serve as mentors to the next. Through a three-step process--content, process, and product--participants must be trained with this mentoring and apprenticeship paradigm in conflict resolution, and they receive sensitivitiy and diversity training, through an interactive and dramatic exposition. The content phase introduces participants to the model's philosophy, ethics, values and methods of operation. The process used to teach and reinforce its precepts is the mentoring and apprenticeship activities and projects in which the participants engage and whose end product demontrates their knowledge and understanding of the model's concepts. This study sought to ascertain from the participants' perspectives whether the model's mentoring approach is an effective means of fostering inclusiveness, based upon their own experiences in using it. The research utilized a qualitative approach and included data from field observations, individual and group interviews, and written accounts of participants' attitudes. Participants complete ICB projects utilizing the Ellison Model as a method of development and implementation. They generally perceive that the model is a viable tool for dealing with diversity issues whether at work, at school, or at home. The projects are also instructional in that whether participants are mentored or seve...
Hugh GladwinDeryl G. HuntStephen Fjellman
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- Apprentice
- Business Administration
- Christian
- Civic Activism
- Civic Organization
- Cognitive
- Compassion
- Conflict Resolution
- Core Values
- Economic Development
- Educational Leadership
- Ethics
- Ethnicity
- Ethnography
- High School
- Higher Education
- Higher Learning
- Love
- Management
- Motivation
- Multiculturalism
- Organizational Culture
- Primary School
- Professional Development
- Professional Leadership
- Psychological Welfare
- Public Administration
- Race Relations
- Religion
- Sensitivity Training
- Social Change
- Social Development
- Social Welfare
- Social Work
- Structural Functionalism
- Structuralist
- Systems Theory
- Transformational Leadership