Initiation, Cultivation, Separation and Redefinition: Application of Kram's Mentoring Framework to Doctoral Education in Information and Library Science

摘要

This work seeks to describe the current state of doctoral education in Library and Information Science (LIS) using Kram's (1983) mentoring framework, which classifies mentoring into four linear stages: initiation, cultivation, separation, and redefinition. The data was gathered through 30 interviews and surveys of more than 200 faculty members in LIS. The results provide an exploratory description of doctoral education utilizing Kram's framework. The results are particularly informative for the producers and consumers of doctoral education.