Title
Students as Leaders and Learners: Toward Self-Authorship and Social Change on a College Campus
Document Type
Article
Version
Author's Final Manuscript
Publication Title
Innovations in Education and Teaching International
Volume
50
Publication Date
2013
Abstract
In this article we present a case study of undergraduate students’ experiences in several leadership programs at Bryn Mawr College. Through a collaborative action research study, we identified three interrelated sets of practices in which student participants engage: discerning differences and bringing those differences into dialogue; revising their sense of themselves and becoming more serious students; and revising leadership relationships and creating community. We offer this study as an illustration of and commentary on Baxter Magolda’s theory of self-authorship and students’ development as leaders for social change — an illustration that highlights the close connection between self-development and leadership development.
Publisher's Statement
This is an Author's Original Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in Innovations in Education and Teaching International on December 3, 2012, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/14703297.2012.746511.
Citation
Cohen, Judy , Alison Cook-Sather, Alice Lesnick, et al. "Students as Leaders and Learners: Toward Self-Authorship and Social Change on a College Campus." Innovations in Education and Teaching International 50 (2013): 3-13.
DOI
10.1080/14703297.2012.746511