Development and Assessment of Self-Authorship: Exploring the Concept Across Cultures

by Magolda, Marcia B. Baxter; Creamer, Elizabeth G.; Meszaros, Peggy S.

• ISBN13: 9781579223687
• ISBN10: 1579223680
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-02-28
• Publisher: Stylus Pub Llc

Summary

This book brings together new scholarship that expands and refines the concept of self-authorship across cultures. It adopts a constructive-developmental approach to self-evolution that emphasizes the interaction of personal characteristics and contextual influences on individuals' construction of knowledge, identities, and relationships. Individual chapters cover subjects from populations as varied as Dutch students, male and female Bedouin and Jewish adolescents, African American male and female adolescents in economically depressed areas of the US, Latino/a college students grappling with ethnic identity and dissonance, Australian college females preparing to be childcare workers, and finally a comparative study of Japanese and U.S. college students' epistemic beliefs. The book concludes by addressing questions about the challenges and opportunities involved in developing a valid measure of self-authorship that is less time and expertise-intensive than the in-depth one-on-one interview employed until now; and offering an outline of future theoretical and methodological research needed to further our understanding of self-evolution in general and self-authorship in particular.

Author Biography

The Editors: Marcia B. Baxter Magolda is Distinguished Professor of Educational Leadership at Miami University of Ohio. Elizabeth G. Creamer is Professor of Educational Research and Evaluation in the School of Education at Virginia Tech. Peggy S. Meszaros is the William E. Lavery Professor of Human Development and Director of the Center for Information Technology Impacts on Children, Youth, and Families at Virginia Tech.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Theoretical Foundations of Self-Authorship
Foundational Assumptions and Constructive-Developmental Theory
Self-Authorship Narratives	p. 3
The Interweaving of Epistemological, Intrapersonal, and Interpersonal Development in the Evolution of Self-Authorship	p. 25
Linking Learning Conceptions to Self-Authorship and Beyond	p. 45
Multicultural Perspectives on Self-Authorship
Investigating Latino Ethnic Identity Within the Self-Authorship Framework	p. 69
An Exploratory Study of the Relationship Between Adolescent Risk and Resilience and the Early Development of Self-Authorship	p. 85
Toward Self-Authorship in Child Care Students
Implications for Working With Children and their Families	p. 101
Epistemological Development of Bedouins and Jews in Israel
Implications for Self-Authorship	p. 117
Personal Epistemology, Learning, and Cultural Context
Japan and the United States	p. 133
Theoretical and Methodological Challenges in Understanding and Assessing Self-Authorship
Beyond Self-Authorship
Fifth Order and the Capacity for Social Consciousness	p. 151
The Role of the Cognitive Dimension of Self-Authorship
An Equal Partner or the Strong Partner?	p. 167
What Is Self-Authorship?
A Theoretical Exploration of the Construct	p. 187
Demonstrating the Link Between Reasoning and Action in the Early Stages of Self-Authorship	p. 207
Getting to the Complexities of Identity
The Contributions of an Autoethnographic and Intersectional Approach	p. 223
Using the Subject-Object Interview to Promote and Assess Self-Authorship	p. 245
Future Directions
Future Directions
Pursuing Theoretical and Methodological Issues in the Evolution of Self-Authorship	p. 267
	p. 285
Contributors	p. 287
Index	p. 293
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