Synopses & Reviews
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 (LPM) 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. Chapter authors present the Learning Partnerships Model in action, describing how they use the Model to conceptualize, implement, and assess outcomes of educational practice intentionally designed to promote learning and self-authorship. The variations of implementation of the LPM, the diversity of contexts in which they occurred, and the multiple populations of students involved support the model s utility to promote self-authorship inacademic and student affairs arenas.In conclusion, Patricia King synthesizes lessons from these diverse uses of the model and describes a two-part framework for educators to analyze and design educational practice using the LPM. 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.
Synopsis
"Those interested in strengthening the ties between theory and practice and between faculty and student affairs can find inspiration here. Those committed to developing the co-curriculum to promote self-authorship will have a better sense of how to do that."-- Journal of College Student Development
Synopsis
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.