導師（mentor）是指在專業成長過程中，對他人表現出特別關注與支持的人。他們不僅分享自身職涯經驗與知識，提供具體的建議與回饋，亦在情感與道德上給予鼓勵與支持。導師的角色多元，既可能是指導學習與研究的顧問或教師，也可能是引介資源與機會的推手，更是專業典範，幫助學生或後進塑造自身學術與職涯發展的方向。

1. A mentor is someone who takes a special interest in helping another person develop into a successful professional.

2. Mentors are advisors, people with career experience willing to share their knowledge; supporters, people who give emotional and moral encouragement; tutors, people who give specific feedback on one's performance; masters, in the sense of employers to whom one is apprenticed; sponsors, sources of information about and aid in obtaining opportunities; models, of identity, of the kind of person one should be to be an academic.

3. Someone who provides education, training, guidance, critical feedback, or emotional support to a student. In science, a mentor may be the student’s advisor but need not be.

中文釋義翻譯自英文釋義之資料來源。

1. National Academy of Engineering. (1997). Adviser, teacher, role model, friend: On being a mentor  to students in science and engineering. The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/5789
2. Zelditch, M. (1990). Mentor roles. In Proceedings of the 32nd  annual meeting of the Western Association of Graduate Schools. (as cited in National Academy of Engineering, 1997, Adviser, teacher, role model, friend:  On being a mentor to students in science and engineering, p. 2). The National Academies Press.
3. Resnik, D. B. (2015). Glossary of commonly used terms in research ethics. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. https://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/resources/bioethics/glossary/index.cfm

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