Learning Partnerships : Theory and Models of Practice to Educate for Self-Authorship

by Baxter Magolda, Marcia B.; King, Patricia M.

• ISBN13: 9781579220846
• ISBN10: 1579220843
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-04-01
• Publisher: Stylus Pub Llc

Summary

While a common goal of higher education is to improve student learning to prepare young adults for the professional, civic and personal challenges of their lives, few institutions have a model to facilitate these outcomes. "Learning Partnerships" offers a grounded theory and practical examples of how these objectives can be achieved at the college course, program, and institutional levels.The book takes as its foundation Marcia Baxter Magolda's "Learning Partnerships Model" based on her seventeen-year longitudinal study of young adults' learning and development from their undergraduate years through their thirties. Based on nearly a thousand participant narratives, the model offers an empirically grounded yet flexible approach to promote "self-authorship." Marcia Baxter Magolda describes the nature of self-authorship -- its centrality to the learning goals of cognitive maturity, an integrated identity, mature relationships, and effective citizenship -- and the Model.The book then documents examples of actual practice and the learning outcomes they have yielded. The settings include community college and undergraduate courses, exchange and internship programs, residential life, a Masters' program, faculty development and student affairs organization. "Learning Partnerships" offers models for all educators -- faculty and student affairs staff alike -- who work to balance guidance and learner responsibility to prepare students for the complexity of the twenty-first century.

Table of Contents

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND TABLES	ix
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS	xi
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	xiii
PREFACE	xvii
PART I: A THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK TO EDUCATE FOR SELF-AUTHORSHIP
1. SELF-AUTHORSHIP AS THE COMMON GOAL OF 21ST-CENTURY EDUCATION	1	(36)
Marcia B. Baxter Magolda
2. LEARNING PARTNERSHIPS MODEL	37	(26)
A Framework for Promoting Self-Authorship
Marcia B. Baxter Magolda
PART II: MODELS OF EDUCATIONAL PRACTICE TO PROMOTE SELF-AUTHORSHIP
3. PROMOTING SELF-AUTHORSHIP THROUGH AN INTERDISCIPLINARY WRITING CURRICULUM	63	(28)
Carolyn Haynes
4. CREATING A CONTEXT TO PROMOTE DIVERSITY EDUCATION AND SELF-AUTHORSHIP AMONG COMMUNITY COLLEGE STUDENTS	91	(34)
Anne M. Hornak and Anna M. Ortiz
5. AN URBAN LEADERSHIP INTERNSHIP PROGRAM	125	(26)
Implementing Learning Partnerships "Unplugged" from Campus Structures
Katie Egart and Melissa P. Healy
6. A LEARNING PARTNERSHIP	151	(34)
U.S. College Students and the Poor in El Salvador
Kevin Yonkers-Talz
7. COMMUNITY STANDARDS MODEL	185	(28)
Developing Learning Partnerships in Campus Housing
Terry D. Piper and Jennifer A. Buckley
8. A COMMUNITY OF SCHOLARS	213	(32)
Enacting the Learning Partnerships Model in Graduate Education
Judy L. Rogers, Peter M. Magolda, Marcia B. Baxter Magolda, and Kathleen Knight Abowitz
PART III: IMPLICATIONS OF IMPLEMENTING THE LEARNING PARTNERSHIPS MODEL
9. THE LEARNING PARTNERSHIPS MODEL	245	(24)
Framing Faculty and Institutional Development
Terry M. Wildman
10. ORGANIZING FOR LEARNING IN A DIVISION OF STUDENT AFFAIRS	269	(34)
Rebecca Mills and Karen L. Strong
PART IV: DESIGNING LEARNING PARTNERSHIPS
11. CREATING LEARNING PARTNERSHIPS IN HIGHER EDUCATION	303	(30)
Modeling the Shape, Shaping the Model
Patricia M. King and Marcia B. Baxter Magolda
INDEX	333