Mentoring for school leadership in South Africa: Diversity, dissimilarity and disadvantage

Professional Development in Education

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 487-503

  Moorosi, Pontso ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diversity; Gender; Mentoring; Race; Similarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866929832     PISSN: 19415257     EISSN: 19415265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19415257.2011.637430     Document Type: Article

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