Chracter Magolda Self Authorship Model

As Donald Trump got elected as the 45th president of the United States, a friend of mine posted on her Facebook: “See how desperately Americans wanted a change that they dared to choose and try a new thing, even that might be an insane one. Should I do the same thing by making a life change revolution or remain silence and keep tolerating the sadness of my life for millennia?” She is my Vietnamese friend who has a similar life story like mine. She is living in the U.S. as a spouse of a doctoral student and she wants to get the education here in order to secure a good career in the future and eventually to change her life. Having a master’s degree from a well-known college in Vietnam, she is a well-educated woman. However, like me, her life turned tough and rough
“Self-authorship” would be the topic of my paper. Specifically, I would like to reflect my development or my path toward self-authorship in my young adulthood, as well as sharing how my self-authorship lost and found within the period of dealing with my adult life’s challenges. I am also intrigued in discussing the exploration and the studies on self-authorship in diverse populations in the U.S. Finally, using “Learning partnerships in Practice” which Taran Cardone, Elizabeth Stoll Turton, Gerald Olson, and Marcia Baxter Magolda (2013) have dedicated their time to do the research about and the “Critical and Poststructural Perspectives on Self-Authorship” researched by Abes and Hernández (2016), I close my paper with my awareness and thoughts about the roles and responsibilities of students affairs educators in acknowledging the importance of self-authorship and promoting it for students’ development during their college