Evaluation of a university-based mentoring program: Mentors' perspectives on a service-learning experience

Mentoring and Tutoring: Partnership in Learning

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 361-382

  Hughes, Carolyn ^a   Boyd, Elizabeth ^a   Dykstra, Sara J ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

High poverty youth; Mentor perspectives; Service learning; University based mentoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951683671     PISSN: 13611267     EISSN: 14699745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13611267.2010.511844     Document Type: Article

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