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Realizing the University in an age of supercomplexity. Greater expectations: A new vision of learning as a nation goes to college. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.Īssociation of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. The Learning Partnerships Model, also derived from the longitudinal data, will be used to illustrate how educators can create the conditions that promote learning, complex epistemology, and self-authorship.

This chapter will present Baxter Magolda’s theory of the evolution of self-authorship, integrating epistemological growth with identity and relationship growth, based on the longitudinal data. The longitudinal narratives illustrate how epistemology develops over time, its relationship to learning in higher education and adult life, and the conditions participants encountered that promoted complex epistemology and learning simultaneously. Baxter Magolda’s 20-year longitudinal study of young adult learning and development demonstrates that these learning outcomes require self-authorship or complex epistemological beliefs accompanied by complex understanding of self and relationships. These qualities are routinely endorsed as learning outcomes of higher education in the USA. Global citizenship requires understanding complexity, negotiating multiple perspectives, intercultural sensitivity, lifelong learning, and the capacity for mutual, interdependent relations with others.

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