Mentoring in multiple dimensions.
Thousands of words, scores of models, and multitudes of professionals have attempted to explain and successfully replicate this "thing" we call mentoring. All in service to a greater good, using a win-win interpretation of the purpose and outcome, mentoring has become the hallowed pathway to success in almost every profession. However, life is more than a cause and effect equation. This article examines mentoring from a multi-dimensional perspective, with those dimensions encompassing the generational history, family belief system, cultural archetypes, individual learning style, and physical challenges inherent in people of one culture moving through a rigid educational system designed by people of another culture.
Beverly
Patchell
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American Indian Nursing Student Success Program, University of Oklahoma College of Nursing, 1100 N. Stonewall, Oklahoma City, OK 73117, USA. beverly-patchell@ouhsc.edu
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