This study aims to analyze the effect of implementing the peer teaching method on students’ activeness and understanding in learning haircutting techniques. The background of this research is the low level of student participation and engagement in the learning process, especially in courses that require high practical skills. The research method used is descriptive qualitative, with data collected through online questionnaires distributed to students of the Beauty Education Study Program at Universitas Negeri Semarang from the 2023–2025 cohorts. The results show that the peer teaching method can enhance students’ activeness, motivation, and understanding, as learning is carried out more casually and communicatively among peers. In addition, this method also develops students’ social, communication, and responsibility skills. Therefore, peer teaching is effective to be applied as an active learning strategy in practice-based vocational education.
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