Lecturer: Patricia M. King
Topic: Studying the Link between Liberal Education and Student Development: The Wabash National Study of Liberal Arts Education
Date & Time: Apr. 4, 2014, 9:00-11:00
Venue: Room 407, Central Teaching Building
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Details: Dr. Patricia M. King is a Professor of Higher Education in the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education at the University of Michigan. Her teaching and research focus on the learning and development of late adolescents and adults, especially college students. She is interested in approaches to development that explore the intersections among developmental domains, such as intellectual, identity and social development, and how these affect a range of collegiate outcomes, such as intercultural maturity, citizenship, and character or moral development. Her current work focuses on the development of self-authorship, especially as it relates to collegiate learning outcomes. She has co-authored two books, Developing Reflective Judgment (with Karen Strohm Kitchener) and Learning Partnerships: Theory and Models of Practice to Educate for Self-Authorship (with Marcia Baxter Magolda) and a monograph, Assessing Meaning Making and Self-Authorship. She has served on several advisory boards for the American Association of Colleges and Universities, including the Research and Educational Change Collaborative, part of the Educating for Personal and Social Responsibility Project. She is a graduate of Macalester College (St. Paul, Minnesota) and completed her doctoral studies in Educational Psychology at the University of Minnesota.
The Wabash National Study of Liberal Arts Education (WNS) is a recent major national study of the practices and conditions that lead to the achievement of liberal arts outcomes and the type of developmental maturity called “self-authorship”.
This presentation will explain in more detail the research grounding of the findings reported in my earlier presentations that day. It will be geared toward researchers who are interested in honing their qualitative research skills and learning from our efforts in conducting this type of study in the context of liberal arts education. Accordingly, I will focus on the strategies used to organize and analyze this large qualitative data set so that other researchers can learn from our efforts linking liberal arts outcomes and student learning and development.
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