Educational View
Dr. Marcelle Mentor @marcellementor
Professor of Education
The collaborative potential of all learning experiences
@marcellementor
Dr. Marcelle Mentor
Professor of Education
Educational View:The collaborative potential of all learning experiences
Bio: Dr Marcelle Mentor is a South African native who completed her Ph.D. at Teachers College, Columbia University, and is currently a professor of Education at The College of New Rochelle. She is a former high school English Teacher having taught in her homeland for 15 years. She now considers herself a native New Yorker, having lived there for 13 years. Her academic interest focuses on Critical Race Theory, with an emphasis on Black Masculinity and Black men as classroom teachers. Her teaching philosophy is based on the concept of Ubuntu which is a Southern African ethic or humanistic philosophy which focuses on the fact that we are people through the existence and interaction with and from other people. She believes that we cannot be everything we are meant to be without the help of other people. She enjoys the collaborative potential of educational experiences where we are all learners and teachers, and she would always want to promote a sense of openness and acceptance of others within these environments. She is an activist, a mother of two teen aged sons; a scholar and teller of stories.
Professor of Education
Educational View:The collaborative potential of all learning experiences
Bio: Dr Marcelle Mentor is a South African native who completed her Ph.D. at Teachers College, Columbia University, and is currently a professor of Education at The College of New Rochelle. She is a former high school English Teacher having taught in her homeland for 15 years. She now considers herself a native New Yorker, having lived there for 13 years. Her academic interest focuses on Critical Race Theory, with an emphasis on Black Masculinity and Black men as classroom teachers. Her teaching philosophy is based on the concept of Ubuntu which is a Southern African ethic or humanistic philosophy which focuses on the fact that we are people through the existence and interaction with and from other people. She believes that we cannot be everything we are meant to be without the help of other people. She enjoys the collaborative potential of educational experiences where we are all learners and teachers, and she would always want to promote a sense of openness and acceptance of others within these environments. She is an activist, a mother of two teen aged sons; a scholar and teller of stories.