Thanks for the Interesting question.  From Internet search, reverse mentoring refers to "initiative in which older executives are paired with and mentored by younger employees on topics such as technology, social media and current trends."

https://www.techopedia.com/definition/28107/reverse-mentoring

From the above definition, I have 2 questions - do you think younger employees merely provide learning to older executives is a kind of mentoring and not "reverse mentoring"?

Or do you think "reverse mentoring" only happens when the older executive is paired up with a younger employee in which the older executive is supposed to provide "forward" mentoring to the younger employee & at the same time the younger employee can provide "reverse" mentoring to the older executive on areas like new technologies, social media, current trends etc.?

Like my sons in law helping us with latest technology! You have chosen an interesting topic, and should look at the work already done, and their links, and their links...

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Thanks for the Interesting question.  From Internet search, reverse mentoring refers to "initiative in which older executives are paired with and mentored by younger employees on topics such as technology, social media and current trends."

https://www.techopedia.com/definition/28107/reverse-mentoring

From the above definition, I have 2 questions - do you think younger employees merely provide learning to older executives is a kind of mentoring and not "reverse mentoring"?

Or do you think "reverse mentoring" only happens when the older executive is paired up with a younger employee in which the older executive is supposed to provide "forward" mentoring to the younger employee & at the same time the younger employee can provide "reverse" mentoring to the older executive on areas like new technologies, social media, current trends etc.?

Reverse mentoring - just look at technology, students know far more than the adults in their life. I ran a Computational Thinking Workshop this summer and let a fourteen year old teach me and the class how to code using Scratch. He also taught me how best students learn coding and retain through meaningful and fun activities he had explored on his own.

Dear colleagues, 

thank you for valuable ideas.  While answering to questions I stick to the Wendy Marcinkus Murphy (2012) opinion  "Reverse mentoring is situated in the mentoring

literature as an alternative form of mentoring, with unique characteristics

and support functions exchanged that distinguish it from other developmental

relationships. "

Best wishes, Aldona

Maybe you should look at the concept of legitimate peripheral participation in the community of practice by Wenger and lave (1991).... it is able to separate age, experience (knowledge) and competencies of the master in the community of practice

Informally, I did have a reverse mentor last school year. I was working on my first major musical last year, the Lion King for my elementary school. Even though I had taught music for 10+ years, I only did small "cute" productions with monologue speaking parts and a song in between the student speeches. This past year, I tried a kid version of a Broadway musical, Lion King. The person who I was renting the costumes from was younger than me and a drama teacher with a lot of experience with formal musicals. She provided feed back and stage pointers to me during the planning stages. This happens in the education field...reverse mentorship.

Dearest I had this kind of experience and you know it is very constructive because, thanks to their collanorazione was born a wonderful experience to work and research. Pressol'Università of Urbino I met a group of students who have brought me to live hand to the solution that the DSA can rehabilitate answer .With Ritamaria Bucciarelli

Perhaps I am age sensitive but I find the tone of explaining mentoring based on age or experience a bit of a concern.  It is the same as if comparing black teachers to white teachers.  ALL MENTORING is a two way street.  While one may have more experience or time on the task, both learn from one another when they work together.  Both bring something to the situation and wisely both will collaborate together to weave the best from the situation given the factors involved.  This opinion is not based on some research anywhere that I have even bothered to look for but on gut mentoring reality.  I often look for analogies to help portray my thinking and here is a stab at one that , to me, fits.  You don't have to prove that breathing is good for you, you know.

I see reverse mentoring as something as simple as an exchange. First,  tutor number one shows how s/he solves x and then, tutor number two explains back by repeating or demonstrating how to solve it using the same method or a different one. We have explored this type of mentoring with a 5th grade group of students during math classes. 

Please find attached some literature for your perusal.

Best Wishes!

Article Examining traditional mentoring functioning scale considerin...

Article Reverse mentoring becomes a two-way street: Case study of a ...

Article Effect of Reverse Mentoring on Traditional Mentoring Functions

Article The development of experienced teachers’ self authorship in ...

Article Effect of using the attention, relevance, confidence, and sa...

Yes, I have found that when it comes to the use of technology, I have had younger experts mentor me as an older educational technologist. They are born into the technology whereas we have migrated into it.

Many thanks,

Debra

I see that many of the examples posted are workplace examples Aldona. If you are interested in school students mentoring their teachers you might find the 'Tech Angels" initiative in a New Zealand secodnary school interesting. There is a  research report from two of my colleagues here:   http://www.nzcer.org.nz/system/files/ict-tech-angels.pdf

The first part is about IT implementation more generally (this is a few years ago) but the second part could be of interest. Jane and Rachel unpack the mentoring model from two different perspectives.

Thank you, dear Rosemary,

for valuable comment.

Best regards, Aldona

I am interested in "peer mentoring" where they are equally competent but within in different environments/contexts. For example a University teacher and a manager in a company. I have arranged that kind of my mentorprogram at my university to help the teachers now how it is outside academia with very good result. Does anyone have litteratur or experience of something alike?

BR Sara/KTH Sweden

I agree with Debra Sharon Ferdinand. younger generations are always stronger in technology use! e.g, it was my responsibility to teach use of cell phones, smartphones, computers , I-net banking, mobile banking etc etc to my parents!

Happy to help Aldona. You might find this report useful too:  https://www.educationcounts.govt.nz/publications/e-Learning/evaluation-of-the-manaiakalani-digital-teaching-academy

There are all sorts of nuances to relationships between mentors and mentees - I think we captured some quite nicely in this small evaluation.  

The Handbook for Student Management Teams employs a similar function to reverse mentoring in the university-level academic program and classroom environments. Employs the Edwards Deming Quality Circles approach (Not to be confused with cumbersome "Total Quality Management" structures that perverted Deming's proven structure).