Mentoring at-risk adolescent girls: Listening to ‘Little Sisters’

Mentoring and Tutoring: Partnership in Learning

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 223-234

  Maldonado, Nancy L ^a   Quarles, Alice ^b   Lacey, Candace H ^c   Thompson, Steve D ^c  

^a Virtual Sage Publishers   (United States)

^b Miami Dade County   (United States)

^c NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Aspirations; Mentoring; Possible selves; Qualitative; Self efficacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956178996     PISSN: 13611267     EISSN: 14699745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13611260801916721     Document Type: Article

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