By Marcia B. Baxter Magolda, Patricia M. King
Whereas a typical target of upper schooling is to enhance pupil studying to arrange teenagers for the pro, civic and private demanding situations in their lives, few associations have a version to facilitate those results. studying Partnerships bargains a grounded idea and useful examples of the way those goals should be completed on the university direction, software, and institutional levels.
The e-book takes as its beginning Marcia Baxter Magolda’s "Learning Partnerships version" in keeping with her seventeen-year longitudinal research of teens’ studying and improvement from their undergraduate years via their thirties. in keeping with approximately one thousand player narratives, the version bargains an empirically grounded but versatile method of advertise "self-authorship." Marcia Baxter Magolda describes the character of self-authorship--its centrality to the educational objectives of cognitive adulthood, an built-in identification, mature relationships, and potent citizenship--and the Model.
The publication then files examples of tangible perform and the training results they've got yielded. The settings contain neighborhood university and undergraduate classes, alternate and internship courses, residential lifestyles, a Masters’ application, school improvement and pupil affairs organization.
Learning Partnerships deals types for all educators--faculty and pupil affairs employees alike--who paintings to stability tips and learner accountability to organize scholars for the complexity of the twenty-first century.
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