Description: Creating Contexts For Learning & Self-Authorship by Marcia B. Baxter Magolda In this thoughtful and innovative book, Marcia B. Baxter Magolda writes of ""bridging the worlds between educator and students."" There is perhaps no task more fundamental to effective teaching and learning. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description n her thoughtful and innovative new book, Marcia B. Baxter Magolda writes of "bridging the worlds between educator and students." There is perhaps no task more fundamental to effective teaching and learning. All too often a distinct gap develops or cannot be overcome between instructor and student, one that leaves each struggling to understand the others position. The professional quest for principles of structure and process that can help close this divide is both evolving and unending.This book is intended to help college faculty create conditions in which students learn to construct knowledge in their disciplines and achieve self-authorship. A significant, and often overlooked, dimension mediating learning and self-authorship centers on learners ways of knowing, or their assumptions about the nature, limits, and certainty of knowledge. A learner who assumes that all knowledge is certain expects to hear answers from an authority figure; in contrast, a learner who views knowledge as relative expects to explore multiple viewpoints. By taking a constructive-developmental approach, Baxter Magolda demonstrates how students ability to construct knowledge is intertwined with the development of their assumptions about knowledge itself and their role in creating it. She shows how the structure of constructive-developmental teaching hinges on three principles: validating students ability to know, situating learning in students experience, and defining learning as teachers and students mutually constructing meaning.Unlike most of the literature on the subject, this book takes abstract pedagogical principles and translates them into practical methods. By observing four semester-length college courses in mathematics, zoology, human development, and education and intensively interviewing students and their instructors, Baxter Magolda provides much-needed, concrete principles that will lead to valuable improvements in the classroom environment. With an enhanced level of understanding of the teaching-learning relationship, professors will be able to teach better, and students will be able to learn better, thus preparing them to meet the demands inherent in adulthood and preparing them to take an active role in creating a better society.Those actively involved in higher education, whether college faculty or students in graduate programs, as well as anyone focused on education in general will find much of interest in this book. Author Biography Marcia B. Baxter Magolda is professor of educational leadership at Miami University. She is also the author of Knowing and Reasoning in College (1992) and Assessing Intellectual Development (1988). Details ISBN0826513468 Author Marcia B. Baxter Magolda Short Title CREATING CONTEXTS FOR LEARNING Series Vanderbilt Issues in Higher Education Language English ISBN-10 0826513468 ISBN-13 9780826513465 Media Book Format Paperback Imprint Vanderbilt University Press Subtitle Constructive-developmental Pedagogy Place of Publication Tennessee Country of Publication United States Birth 1951 Residence US Publisher Vanderbilt University Press Illustrations black & white illustrations Pages 320 DOI 10.1604/9780826513465 AU Release Date 2000-12-08 NZ Release Date 2000-12-08 UK Release Date 2000-12-08 Year 2000 Publication Date 2000-12-30 DEWEY 378.125 Audience Undergraduate US Release Date 2000-12-30 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:44435730;
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ISBN-13: 9780826513465
Book Title: Creating Contexts For Learning & Self-Authorship
Author: Marcia B. Baxter Magolda
Publication Name: Creating Contexts for Learning & Self-Authorship
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Subject: Coaching & Career Guidance, Education
Publication Year: 2000
Type: Textbook
Number of Pages: 320 Pages
