In this book, author Helen Colley does a stalwart job in setting the record straight. This is a scholarly text, which traces the history of mentoring and unravels its mythology. At the same time it also critically probes in some depth the tough realities of what Colley calls "mentor relationships", using illustrations from an empirical research project that she conducted on mentoring practice within a youth training programme.
There is a wonderful section on both mentors and mentees "going round in circles" and "getting stuck". But while the former "stuck with it", the latter did not. Colley describes this, cleverly but appositely, not as "not a happy ending" but as an "unhappy not-ending".
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