Creating reusable forms with partial views - asp.net-mvc

Question

I'm trying to figure out the best way to create reusable forms with MVC. The situation is that I have a few forms used for editing groups of data that are used on several places on the site so obviously I dont want to copy paste the same forms for each of these places. I'm trying to use partial views but I cannot make it work completely and maybe I'm on the wrong track here.
The case which shows my problem is that I have one view with three different tabs (all tabs are in the same view and using simple javascript). On each tab I have added a partial view for editing that specific data. I have created the partial views with controller and everything. Each partial view contains its own form with validation summary.
If my controller actions simply return a PartialView the result is that the partial view is rendered alone, without the parent view surrounding it. Am I doing something wrong here if I get that result?
Am I on the wrong track to do this? Is there some other solution I should be doing instead?
To be more specific about the questions I have:
1) Is there a common pattern/solution for implementing components which include a form?
2) Using the solution here with partial views, how can I render the result of the controller action inside the master view the way it was rendered before the post?
Parts of the code for the master view:
<div class="tab-content no-border padding-24">
<div id="editProfile" class="tab-pane in active">
#{
Html.RenderAction("EditUserProfile", "UserData", new { userId = Model.Id });
}
</div>
<div id="password" class="tab-pane">
#{
Html.RenderAction("EditPassword", "UserData", new { userId = Model.Id });
}
</div>
</div>
The partial view for editing password:
#model Project.Web.Models.Shared.EditPasswordViewModel
<div id="summary">
#Html.ValidationSummary(false)
</div>
<div class="row">
#using (Html.BeginForm("EditPassword", "UserData", FormMethod.Post, new { id = "editpasswordform", #class = "form-horizontal site-validation" }))
{
#Html.AntiForgeryToken()
#Html.HiddenFor(o => o.Id)
#Html.PasswordFor(o => o.Password, new { #class = "col-xs-12 form-control", type = "password", id = "password-field" })
#Html.TextBoxFor(o => o.NewPassword, new { #class = "col-xs-12", type = "text", id = "new-password-field"})
#Html.TextBoxFor(o => o.RepeatNewPassword, new { #class = "col-xs-12", type = "password", id = "repeat-new-password-field"})
<button type="submit" class="width-35 pull-right btn btn-sm btn-primary">
<i class="icon-hdd"></i>
Save
</button>
}
</div>
Finally the controller method to save the password and go back to the same view:
[HttpPost]
[ValidateAntiForgeryToken]
[Authorize()]
public PartialViewResult EditPassword(EditPasswordViewModel model)
{
try
{
if (ModelState.IsValid)
{
//Get the user
User user = GetUserById(model.Id);
//Update the user
UpdatePassword(user.Username, model.Password, model.NewPassword);
}
return PartialView("_EditPassword", model);
}
catch (DomainException ex)
{
ModelState.AddModelError("", ex.Message);
return PartialView("_EditPassword", model);
}
}
Thanks!