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Mentoring conversations involve differences in knowledge and expertise which are often significant. In their review of literature on the role of knowledge in conversations, Stivers, Mondala and Steensig (2011) noted how participants use their ‘epistemic authority’ (Heritage & Raymond, 2005), to guide a conversation.
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Pretorius, A.J.M., Westhuizen, G.J.V.D. (2015). Space Making in Mentoring Conversations. 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_9
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