TY - JOUR
T1 - The Mentor’s Role From the Perspective of Marginalized Young Women Becoming Mentors
T2 - Photovoice-Based Research
AU - Malka, Menny
AU - Komem, Michal
AU - Eyal-Lubling, Roni
AU - Lerner-Ganor, Ella
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank all the participants in the project for their contribution to the group journey, the shared learningand for creating meaningful knowledge about mentoring. The author(s) received no financial support for the research, authorship and/or publication of this article.
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2020.
PY - 2022/5/1
Y1 - 2022/5/1
N2 - This paper examines the perspective of marginalized young women, training to become mentors for marginalized girls, with respect to the role of the mentor. Taking a critical feminist perspective, this article gives expression to the research participants’ unique knowledge, based on life experience as marginalized girls and their lived experiences. Based on a photovoice research project with 13 participants, all marginalized young women, the findings of this paper identify three main narratives regarding the mentoring role: (1) Mentoring as a relationship; (2) Mentoring as an action for the future; and (3) Organizational belongness—the organization hosting the participants serving as an ideological, value-based, and professional home, enabling the growth of the mentor in her role. The conclusions of the article argue that marginalized young women experience mentoring as a practice that expands beyond its rational aspects, embodying within it a corrective experience of relationships and an opportunity for social change.
AB - This paper examines the perspective of marginalized young women, training to become mentors for marginalized girls, with respect to the role of the mentor. Taking a critical feminist perspective, this article gives expression to the research participants’ unique knowledge, based on life experience as marginalized girls and their lived experiences. Based on a photovoice research project with 13 participants, all marginalized young women, the findings of this paper identify three main narratives regarding the mentoring role: (1) Mentoring as a relationship; (2) Mentoring as an action for the future; and (3) Organizational belongness—the organization hosting the participants serving as an ideological, value-based, and professional home, enabling the growth of the mentor in her role. The conclusions of the article argue that marginalized young women experience mentoring as a practice that expands beyond its rational aspects, embodying within it a corrective experience of relationships and an opportunity for social change.
KW - feminist social work
KW - marginalized young women
KW - mentoring
KW - photovoice
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85119298721&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/08861099211060045
DO - 10.1177/08861099211060045
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85119298721
SN - 0886-1099
VL - 37
SP - 320
EP - 342
JO - Affilia - Journal of Women and Social Work
JF - Affilia - Journal of Women and Social Work
IS - 2
ER -