Understanding mentoring of new teachers: Communicative and strategic practices in Australia and Finland

- The study examines the practices of mentoring of new teachers in Finland and Australia.
- The study's aim was to reflect on how mentors and mentees understood mentoring as a social practice.
- Five mentoring categories emerged: opening up, facilitating, counselling, guiding and leading.
- Educators need to be more explicit about differing aims, goals and values of mentoring.
- Good mentoring is about balancing communicative and strategic action.