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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Glossary of terms -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 What this monograph is about -- 1.2 The new way of being together -- 1.3 Mentoring -- The definition of mentoring -- The purpose of mentoring -- Types of mentoring -- The benefits of mentoring -- What is effective mentoring? -- What makes a good mentor? -- The mentors and mentoring in this research -- The mentees - early childhood beginning teachers -- 1.4 Social media, Facebook and our changing sense of being -- The phenomenon of social media -- Who are we really? Heidegger's challenge to our virtual identity -- 1.5 Social media and the early childhood teaching sector -- References -- 2 Exploring the problem -- 2.1 The exploration -- 2.2 Phenomenology -- Researcher as participant -- Research design using phenomenological methods -- Methods -- Links to the rest of the research -- Justification of using phenomenology in mixed-methods -- Participants -- Thematic analysis -- References -- 3 What is actually happening on Facebook? -- Revealing the phenomenon -- 3.1 Analysis of Facebook pages -- 3.2 Latent versus manifest data from dialogue-in-text -- 3.3 Hot topics, sharing, emotionally driven expressions and unexpected phenomena -- Coding: emerging themes in dialogue -- Coding: emerging nature of dialogue -- 3.4 Helpful mentoring -- 3.5 Condescending and conflicting mentoring -- 3.6 Unexpected phenomena -- Discussions about mentoring -- Unresponsive mentoring versus mentoring in abstract thinking -- Rants about theory and practice -- References -- 4 Implications for future EC teachers -- 4.1 Facebook culture in the early childhood sector -- 4.2 Destabilisation in the virtual world of mentoring -- 4.3 Intentionality: what are you doing here? -- References -- 5 Future impact