Making Their Own Way Narratives for Transforming Higher Education to Promote Self-Development

Name: Making Their Own Way Narratives for Transforming Higher Education to Promote Self-Development
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ISBN: 9781579220914

ISBN-10: 1579220916

ISBN-13: 9781579220914

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Authors: Marcia Baxter Magolda

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"...provides long-awaited answers to critical questions regarding how college impacts students' lives. Through an accomplished interview technique, the author provides us with an inside tour of the lives and minds of hundreds of college graduates. The longitudinal design allows us to comprehend more fully the lifelong impact of higher education. The author weaves these stories into a highly usable framework for educational improvement. Her concrete suggestions help the reader transform insights gained from the interviews into current college curricular and co-curricular practices. This book will be immediately useful for anyone connected to the college experience." -- AAHE Bulletin "This…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Publisher: Stylus Publishing, LLC
Publication date: 1/20/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 356
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Marcia B. Baxter Magolda is Distinguished Professor of Educational Leadership at the Miami University of Ohio and a nationally recognized author and speaker on student development and learning. In 2007 she received the Association for the Study of Higher Education's Research Achievement Award for her outstanding contribution to advancing student learning. Her scholarship addresses the evolution of learning and development in college and subsequent adult life, and educational practice to promote self-authorship. Her seventh and eighth books respectively are Authoring Your Life and Development and Assessment of Self-Authorship.



Table of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Preface



The Journey Toward Self-Authorship



Complex Lives



Pathways Into Young Adulthood



Following External Formulas



The Crossroads



Becoming The Author of One's Life



The Internal Foundation



Promoting Self-Authorship in Higher Education



Creating Contexts for Self-Authorship in Academic Affairs



Creating Contexts for Self-Authorship in Campus Work Settings



Creating Contexts for Self-Authorship in the Cocurriculum


Epilogue


References


Longitudinal Study Methodology and Methods


Index