Improving child care quality through an infant caregiver mentoring project

Child and Youth Care Forum

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 79-87

  Fiene, Richard ^a,b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Childcare; Infant caregivers; Mentoring; Training

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248606933     PISSN: 10531890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1015318501688     Document Type: Article

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