Older and wiser : new ideas for youth mentoring in the 21st century /

"Youth mentoring is among the most popular forms of volunteering in the world. Yet, for too long, we have failed to establish whether our efforts were helping young people to succeed. In Older and Wiser, mentoring expert Jean Rhodes draws on more than thirty years of empirical research to surve...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rhodes, Jean E. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2020.
Subjects:
Mentoring.
Youth development.
Youth > Psychology.
Youth > Counseling of.
Mentors
Mentorat.
Jeunesse > Développement.
Jeunesse > Psychologie.
Jeunesse > Counseling.
PSYCHOLOGY > Developmental > Child.
Mentoring
Youth > Counseling of
Youth development
Youth > Psychology
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. "The kind of justice which only a brother can give"
  • 2. Mentoring by the numbers
  • 3. How did we get it so wrong for so long?
  • 4. Giving psychology away
  • 5. Specialized mentoring
  • 6. The promise of embedded and blended mentoring
  • 7. The good enough mentor
  • 8. The road to rigor
  • 9. Why we can't leave natural mentoring to chance
  • 10. The future of mentoring
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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