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Religious educators have recognized the value of narrative as a resource in the classroom both as a form for asking critical questions and also for allowing transforming insight (Hess 2009). The “truth-telling,” as well as entertaining, nature of narrative elicits an emotional response from students as they engage the material immediately. Student response to narrative is often more open and receptive, a response that allows readers to be surprised by what they experience and enabling them to identify with characters and story lines (Siejk 2009). This approach allows what might be called subversive learning. This same strategy might be useful with those who serve as mentors for our students. These busy ministers are often left unimpressed with the texts we offer as resource for their work. The entertaining and subversive aspects of learning from narrative can provide a refreshing and helpful way to engage them in continuing education for the mentoring task. In Life on the Mississippi, Mark Twain (1899/1965) describes his experience of being mentored as a steamboat “cub-pilot” by seasoned pilot, Mr. Bixby. This narrative framework, with its unique and humorous insight into the mentoring relationship, provides a perspective that has many similarities to the kind of “walking alongside” mentoring that is necessary for the formation of faithful and effective ministers.
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CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
KeywordsMark Twain,
Periodical TitleDidache
Periodical Year2010
Periodical Volume Number09
Periodical Issue Number02
Periodical ISSN1536-0156
Peer Reviewed?Yes
Place of PublicationKansas City, Missouri
EditorDean Blevins
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Didache Volume 09, Number 02
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