Play, talk, learn
Subtitle: promising practices in youth mentoring
By: Michael J. Karcher, Michael J. Nakkula, issue editors
Series: New directions for youth development -- no. 126; New directions for youth development -- no. 126.
Publisher: Jossey-Bass/Wiley
Published: 2010
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 157
Subjects: Mentoring; Mentoring in education; Youth development; Youth; Services for
Description: "This volume brings together the findings from separate studies of community-based and school-based mentoring to unpack the common response to the question of what makes youth mentoring work." - - From back cover.
Notes: "Summer 2010."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Youth mentoring with a balanced focus, shared purpose, and collaborative interactions  -- Michael J. Karcher, Michael J. Nakkula; title: Mutual but unequal: mentoring as a hybrid of familiar relationship roles  -- Thomas E. Keller, Julia M. Pryce; title: "I dunno, what do you wanna do?": testing a framework to guide mentor training and activity selection  -- Michael J. Karcher, Carla Herrera, Keoki Hansen; title: Beyond the dichotomy of work and fun: measuring the thorough interrelatedness of structure and quality in youth mentoring relationships  -- Michael J. Nakkula, John T. Harris; title: GirlPOWER! Strengthening mentoring relationships through a structured, gender-specific program  -- Julia M. Pryce, Naida Silverthorn, Bernadette Sanchez, David L. DuBois; title: Deconstructing serendipity: focus, purpose, and authorship in lunch buddy mentoring  -- Timothy A. Cavell, Joye L. Henrie; title: The structure of effective academic mentoring in late adolescence  -- Simon Larose, Diane Cyrenne, Odette Garceau, Pascale Brodeur, George M. Tarabulsy; title: Building mentoring relationships  -- Stephen F. Hamilton, Mary Agnes Hamilton; title: Culture, context, and innovation: a Kiwi Canuck perspective  -- Dave Marshall, Karen Shaver; title: Structuring mentoring relationships for competence, character, and purpose -- Jean E. Rhodes, Renee Spencer.