(University of the Free State, 2009) Schulze, Salome
English: This article reports on the implementation of a model of mentoring in higher education
to improve research output. A number of mentoring models were analysed
before implementing a new model for research mentoring. The ethnographic case
study reports on the mentor’s observation of different influences on the mentoring
process after having implemented the model for a few months. The study revealed
that the implementation of the model was influenced by the university context in
which it took place, the dynamics of the three groups that functioned as communities
of practice, and the individual dispositions of the participants.