Experiencing Transformative Education in the “Corridors” of a Nontraditional Doctoral Program

Abstract

This article describes an experience of transformative education that was not an official part of a degree program. The author and two other doctoral students formed a peer group that worked together for more than 2 years because of their common interests in the experience of successful groups. All three group members produced dissertations that studied different aspects of that peer-group experience. The author’s dissertation study concluded that the term living learning group best captured their group experience. That study also found two intertwined themes, collaboration and relationship, as central aspects of their group experience.