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This paper departs from the assumption that mentoring interactions are fundamentally human relationships between people. Mentors are regarded as people who are committed to developing others by supporting them through posing problems about current practice.
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Merwe, M.P.V.D., Westhuizen, G.J.V.D. (2015). Invitational Conversations in Mentoring. In: Tillema, H., Westhuizen, G.J.v.d., Smith, K. (eds) Mentoring for Learning. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-058-1_10
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