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Intergenerational Practice: Mentoring and Social Capital for Twenty-First Century Communities of Practice
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Cumming-Potvin, Wendy Marie; MacCallum, Judith – McGill Journal of Education, 2010
Aiming to elucidate the relationship between social capital and intergenerational practice within mentoring, this article presents data from a case study of the School Volunteer Program in Western Australia. Drawing on situated learning theory and the concept of community of practice (Lave & Wenger, 1991; Wenger, 1998; Wenger, McDermott, &…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Mentors, Intergenerational Programs, Volunteer Training