Mentoring expectations and realities: An analysis of metaphorical thinking among female undergraduate protegés and their mentors in a university mentoring programme

Mentoring and Tutoring: Partnership in Learning

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 175-187

  Storrs, Debbie ^a   Putsche, Laura ^a   Taylor, Amy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

Mentoring; Metaphor; Relationship

Indexed keywords

EID: 57049164610     PISSN: 13611267     EISSN: 14699745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13611260801916499     Document Type: Article

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