Peer mentoring for first-year teacher education students: The mentors’ experience

Mentoring and Tutoring: Partnership in Learning

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 109-124

  Heirdsfield, Ann M ^a   Walker, Sue ^a   Walsh, Kerryann ^a   Wilss, Lynn ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

First year experience; Mentoring programme; Peer mentoring; Relational model of mentoring; Transition to university

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956833522     PISSN: 13611267     EISSN: 14699745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13611260801916135     Document Type: Article

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