Mentoring the imagination: lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning youth engaging and expanding mentoring in Utah

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Title Mentoring the imagination: lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning youth engaging and expanding mentoring in Utah
Publication Type dissertation
School or College College of Education
Department Education, Culture & Society
Author Hackford-Peer, Kimberly Ann
Date 2010-12
Description There has recently been a slow steady growth of formal mentoring programs for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth. These mentoring programs provide resources, information, advice, assistance, and support to LGBTQ youth as they come out and develop LGBTQ identities. Despite the ever-growing array of opportunities for engaging in LGBTQ mentoring relationships, not all LGBTQ youth have access to, or choose to participate in them. Additionally, LGBTQ youth who do participate do not necessarily get all of their needs met by participating. LGBTQ youth are finding, creating, and participating in social networks and individual explorations that do not necessarily include formal LGBTQ mentoring programs, but might include mentoring opportunities. This project takes up the mentoring experiences of LGBTQ youth who grew up and came out in Utah in order to more deeply understand the ways LGBTQ youth are engaging with and expanding the possibilities for mentoring, particularly when access to LGBTQ adult mentors is limited.
Type Text
Publisher University of Utah
Subject Bakhtin; Mentoring; Narrative; Queer; Utah; Youth
Dissertation Institution University of Utah
Dissertation Name PhD
Language eng
Rights Management © Kimberly Ann Hackford-Peer
Format application/pdf
Format Medium application/pdf
Format Extent 677,501 bytes
Source original in Marriott Library Special Collections ; HQ5.5 2010 .H33
ARK ark:/87278/s6nv9zv7
Setname ir_etd
ID 193410
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6nv9zv7
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