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Combining Mentorship and Action Based Learning. The Case of French Camp Academy, USA

Miroslava Dimitrova

Varna University of Management,Varna, Bulgaria E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Abstract

Action based learning and mentorship are ancient methods for transfer of knowledge, skills and expertise that are becoming increasingly popular today. They have a number of advantages over the traditional, passive and impersonal forms of education. Action based learning provides platform for application and testing of theoretical knowledge in a real life setting, while mentorship implies a deeper and stronger connection between the participants which facilities in addition the learning process. When combined, the both approaches produce numerous benefits for all parties involves. The present paper discusses conceptual issues concerning mentorship and action based learning and their implementation as a combined educational method.

The feasibility of the combined approach is illustrated by the example of French Camp Academy (FCA), USA which presents a best practice of applying both – mentorship and learning by doing.

Keywords: mentorship, mentoring, mentor, mentee, protégé, master, novice, student, learner, apprenticeship, action based learning, learning-by-doing, experiential learning, educational approach, transfer of skills, knowledge and expertise

Citation: Dimitrova, M. (2018) Combining Mentorship and Action Based Learning. The Case of French Camp Academy, USA Journal of Pedagogy and Educational Management 2, pp. 125-138

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Multi-Speed Education. Innovations in Support of Individual Development

Margarita Hristova

Varna University of Management, Varna, Bulgaria, E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Dragomir Tzukev

Private High School of Tourism and Entrepreneurship "Rayko Tsonchev", Dobrich, Bulgaria, E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Abstract

Education is dead, long live education! If this statement sounds like an exaggeration to you, just read the academic report herein! Without any doubt educational systems, with rare exceptions, have been experiencing severe crisis around the world. In 2017 the World Bank warned of “learning crisis” in global education. Indeed education has reached “the point of no return”: It will either lead the world to the path towards spiritual and economic prosperity, or will become part of its erosion, because «a man can become man only through education» (Kant, 1910, p. 42). Indeed, while taking into account the instrumental role education has in forming the human resources and thus the future economic and spiritual perspectives, the authors of the report have come up with a compelling road map to be applied in solving the educational conundrum. What is more, it has been already successfully applied for the last academic year 2017 -2018 in the Private High School of Tourism and Entrepreneurship Rayko Tsonchev, Dobrich, Bulgaria, under the brand of the Bulgarian Ministry of Education “innovative school”.

Keywords: innovative school, diversification, binary lessons, educational laboratory, educational routes, critical thinking

Citation: Hristova, M., Tzukev, D. (2018) Multi-Speed Education. Innovations in Support of Individual Development. Journal of Pedagogy and Educational Management 2, pp. 112-124