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Tiêu đề

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

Tác giả

Hughes C.; Boyd E.; Dykstra S.J.

Năm xuất bản

2010

Source title

Mentoring and Tutoring: Partnership in Learning

Số trích dẫn

DOI

10.1080/13611267.2010.511844

Liên kết

https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-79951683671&doi=10.1080%2f13611267.2010.511844&partnerID=40&md5=b6856841b868bfb71190345a8d656747

Tóm tắt

Researchers in the educational field have investigated how a caring adult can best provide mentoring support to youth placed at risk and what functions a mentoring program should serve to promote healthy mentoring relationships. However, the perspective of mentors rarely has been sought to elicit their evaluation of a mentoring program or recommendations for programmatic change. The purpose of this article was to investigate the views of university students serving as mentors in high-need high schools or community centers. We asked 49 students, primarily undergraduates across a range of liberal arts disciplines, who were participating in a university-based service-learning mentoring program for youth attending high-poverty high schools: (a) what activities they engaged in with men tees, (b) how they benefited from the mentoring program, and (c) how they perceived the program and what recommendations they had for change. Findings revealed specific suggestions that mentoring program coordinators can adopt to address mentors' concerns and promote sustained, durable mentoring relationships for youth. © 2010 Taylor & Francis.

Từ khóa

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

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