Creating Contexts for Learning and Self-Authorship

by Baxter Magolda, Marcia B.

• ISBN13: 9780826513465
• ISBN10: 0826513468
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-11-01
• Publisher: Vanderbilt Univ Pr

Summary

Marica B. Baxter Magolda provides teaching techniques that help bridge the gap between professor and student--a gap that leaves each struggling to understand the other's position. This goal can be achieved by redefining how students view knowledge- as an evolving and endless process with multiple viewpoints, not as a certainty. Viewing knowledge in this way will help the student develop their own assumptions and achieve self-authorship.

Author Biography

Marcia B. Baxter Magolda is professor of educational leadership at Miami University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
PART ONE Worlds Apart: The Need for Constructive-Developmental Pedagogy
Seeking Self-Authorship: The World of Educators	3	(34)
The Developmental Nature of Self-Authorship: The World of Students	37	(24)
Crossing the Border	61	(41)
PART TWO Bridging Multiple Worlds: Forms of Constructive-Developmental Pedagogy
Learning Scientific Inquiry: Revising and Creating Science	102	(35)
Jennifer Buckley
Investigating Together: Building One's Own Construction of Mathematics	137	(30)
Jennifer Buckley
Using Narrative to Promote Self-Authorship: Educational Storytelling	167	(40)
PART THREE The Problems and Promise of Constructive-Developmental Pedagogy
Rebuilding Educators' and Students' Worlds	207	(24)
The Challenges of Constructive-Developmental Pedagogy	231	(22)
The Possibilities of Constructive-Developmental Pedagogy	253	(75)
Appendices
A Observational Study Methods	278	(5)
B The Measure of Epistemological Reflection	283	(7)
C Overview of Longitudinal Study Methods	290	(2)
D Syllabus for Student Development Theory	292	(13)
E CSP Learning Community Philosophy	305	(1)
F Syllabus for Winter Biology	306	(4)
G Syllabus for Math by Inquiry	310	(2)
H Syllabus for Sociocultural Studies in Education	312	(16)
References	328	(11)
Index	339