Boosting Students’ Self-development though Learning Community

Alpino Susanto

Abstract


Learning is a social process that thrives in collaborative, inclusive, and supportive environments. This research explores the opinions of students who were being part of a learning community. A qualitative approach with structured interviews was carried out to find out the opinions of 5 students about their reasons for joining the learning community, and what they gained count of self-development for their present academic reason and the future. The results of this research indicated that the main reason the students participated to the learning community was because of teamwork, interest, and goals. In terms of self-development, they feel relationships, increasing skills, academic, better self-esteem and having more network.  This research concludes that the learning community has contributed to academic and non-academic aspects for the students who determined to participate to the learning community.


Keywords


learning community, self-development, academic, non-formal education

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