Deals with the problems and the need for mentoring and the need to absorb reverse mentoring as a part of the process to avoid disconnect between generations

1. Student Empowerment through Mentoring
and Reverse Mentoring
-B.V.Raghunandan
National Seminar on
MEASURES FOR QUALITY ENHANCEMENT AND SUSTENANCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION
SDM College of Business Management, October 10, 2014

2. Student
Empowerment
• Students are a matrix of bundles of emotion like anger,
uncertainty, jealousy, resentment, competition,
frustration, disbelief, hatred for the system
• It’s a heady mixture of positive and negative energies
• Empowerment comes in the form of converting them
to responsible citizens of social and individual values

3. Mentoring
• Teachers were mentors originally
• Later developments brought in different hues of educational
degrees, institutions, universities, teachers and systems
• Teachers role is confined to the teaching of subjects (Value
education has also became a subject)
• Counsellors have no personal interest or involvement in the
students
• Thus, a Mentor

4. Complex Family Backgrounds
• Leo Tolstoy, in Anna Karenina, "all happy families resemble
each other; all tragic families are tragic in their own way”
• Unhealthy families are tragic families and complexities
peculiar only to themselves
• Break-up of joint families produce highly complex and distinct
child members
• Students from nuclear families generally seek mentoring the
most

5. Mentoring and Reverse
Mentoring
• Mentoring: the Teacher or any
other older person shapes the
younger subject
• Reverse Mentoring: the process
reverses with the younger
subject mentors the mentor
himself
• Reverse Mentoring happens due
to immaturity, lack of
knowledge, general awareness
or smartness in worldly things
on the part of the mentor

6. The Arduous Process of Becoming a Mentor
• Being truthful
• Courage: Not being afraid of any student or a group of
students
• Genuine Interest in protecting the interest of students
• Not hesitating to punish to bring the erring students into line
• Highly knowledgeable and value-based living

7. A Teacher Transforming into a Mentor
• Coverage of curriculum
sufficiently and going beyond
it with current affairs and
developments
• Being original in approach
• Destroying popular
Misconceptions
• Having a scientific
temperament
• Symbolising a rock in display
of emotions
• Assignments to show them
their ignorance and helping
them in building up a
portfolio

8. Road-Blocks in Becoming a Mentor
• Diplomacy, which is a
part of everyone’s
nature
• Postponement of
Problems
• Dependence on
parents for control
• Conflicting concepts
• Institutional Interest
• The views of
Administration

9. Essentials of Reverse Mentoring
• Belief that knowledge is not uni-directional
• It is a world in which human knowledge has surpassed human understanding-hence,
even illiterate beedi-workers who employ people to read news may possess
comprehensive knowledge
• Not all the mentors are the best in all qualities
• Availability of information and knowledge in the electronic media make people at
different levels knowledgeable
• Readiness of Mentor to Accept it

10. Beneficial Impact of Reverse Mentoring
• Mentor can save his breath
• He can understand the present generation far
better
• The subject will have a better respect for the
mentor
• The mentor will become highly
knowledgeable in the process
-he stands to gain from the
experience of his subjects
• Mentor can absolve himself of
• his misconceptions

11. THANK YOU