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标题：Significant Learning of Peer-mentors within a Leadership Living-Learning Community: A Basic Qualitative Study
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作者：Allison L.Dunn ; Lori L.Moore
期刊名称：Journal of Leadership Education
电子版ISSN：1552-9045
出版年度：2020
卷号：19
期号：2
DOI：10.12806/V19/I2/R5
语种：English
出版社：Association of Leadership Educators
摘要：The purpose of this study was to explore and describe the learning experienced by second-year undergraduate students serving as peer mentors to first-year students within a leadership-themed living-learning community. A basic qualitative approach was used, with data collected from semi-structured interviews conducted with participants at the beginning and end of their year-term as peer mentors. The interview transcripts were coded using Fink’s (2003) taxonomy of significant learning, where lasting change is a consequence of the learning. Five of the six categories of significant learning were evident, suggesting that the experience of being a peer mentor within a leadership-themed living-learning community creates lasting change within the peer mentors. Additionally, this study reinforces Fink’s (2003) claim of the interactive rather than hierarchical nature of learning.