Mentees’ Experiences of Multicultural Mentoring Program at Open and Distance University: A Qualitative Study

Hea-Kyoung Eun

Journal of Lifelong Learning Society

Abbr : JLLS
2015, 11(1), pp.89-113
Publisher : Institute of Distance Education
Research Area : Education

Hea-Kyoung Eun ¹

¹ 한국방송통신대학교

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study was to investigate the mentees' experiences and needs of multicultural mentoring program at open and distance university. To attain the purpose of this study, 10 immigrant students who participated as mentees of multicultural mentoring program which were conducted by K university were face to face interviewed. Data collected from the interview analyzed using Patton's theme analysis method. As a result, 26 themes and 13 categories in 3 domains(participation motivation, assistance experience, difficulty and inconvenience) emerged in the analysis. The results are in as the following. First, the categories of participation motivation were 'solving academic difficulty', 'solving linguistic difficulty', 'the desire for friend', and 'mentee incentive'. Second, the categories of assistance experience were 'understanding the learning strategies for open and distance university', 'psychological support', 'receiving tips for education of children', 'receiving advices for future career', 'understanding Korean history', and 'learning Korean'. Third, the categories of difficulty and inconvenience were 'psychological discomfort', 'inconvenience of process', and 'inconvenience of contents'. Fourth, the general category among discovered categories were 'solving academic difficulty' of 'participation motivation', and 'psychological support' of 'assistance experience'. Meanwhile, 'solving linguistic difficulty' and 'the desire for friend' of 'participation motivation', 'understanding the learning strategies for open and distance university' of 'assistance experience', and 'psychological discomfort', 'inconvenience of process', and 'inconvenience of contents' of 'difficulty and inconvenience' were found as typical themes. Based on these results, the implication and discussion of operating multicultural mentoring program were presented.
KEYWORDS

open and distance university , multicultural mentoring program , mentee's experience , qualitative analysis
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