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The Twelve Steps of Academic Adolescence

Our Autoethnographic and Archetypal map Through Academia

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Abstract

Prevalent throughout Western literature and culture, the journey motif weaves its way through tales of human growth—stories which grapple with the processes of how people come to be and to know. The most pervasive cultural understanding of the human quest emerges from Joseph Campbell’s summation of the archetypal monomyth, which centers around a young man who leaves home in search of adventure (Moore, 1997, p. 34; Tyler, 2001, p. 1).

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  1. Texas Tech University, United States

    Sally Mcmillan

  2. Texas Tech University, United States

    Margaret A. Price

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    Susan D. Myers

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    Connie W. Anderson

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Mcmillan, S., Price, M.A. (2012). The Twelve Steps of Academic Adolescence. In: Myers, S.D., Anderson, C.W. (eds) Dimensions in Mentoring. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-870-4_17

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