Mentoring for Success: Female University Students and “At-Risk” Middle School Girls

Youth development research has found that children become more engaged and benefit more from being incorporated as decision makers. Thus participation helps promote development and encourages engagement. Based in theories of engagement and free-choice learning, the current research focused on a program combining sport/physical activity, life skills, and mentoring while promoting healthy life choices for preadolescent girls of color The co-investigators, all women, conducted two 2-hr visits per week for two 12-week periods with a group of 8 girls at a community recreation center in Hartford, Connecticut, including lessons in nutrition and life skills and participation in a sport/physical activity. Five of the girls completed every stage of data collection, including participant journals and four individual interviews with each participant and her parents, over the course of the 24 weeks. The co-investigators also kept journals throughout the program. The results reflected the following themes: self-esteem/self-worth, accountability/responsibility for self connections to community and a sense of belonging, knowledge and acquisition of health/life skills, application of those skills, and planning and recognizing one's own influence on self and others.

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Preadolescent Female Development Through Sport and Physical Activity

Bruening

Dover²,

Clark

2009

Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport

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2002

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Mentoring for Success: Female University Students and “At-Risk” Middle School Girls

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Preadolescent Female Development Through Sport and Physical Activity

Preadolescent Female Development Through Sport and Physical Activity

Emerging Strategies in the Search for Effective University-Community Collaborations

Incorporating Service-Learning into Physical Education Teacher Education Programs

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