Books 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.

One reason so many students fail to achieve complex learning goals may be that they rely too heavily on others opinions about what to believe, who to be, and how to relate to others.

Based on a five-year longitudinal study in which students were interviewed annually from their first year in college to the year after graduation, this book shows how ways of knowing change over the course of college and how gender influences ways of reasoning. It provides both student affairs professionals and teaching faculty with valuable insights into improving practice in such areas as student organizations, internships, campus employment, instructional approaches, evaluation methods, and more.

Proposes a framework for higher education to better foster students' crucial journeys of transformation - through the shaping of curriculum and co-curriculum, advising, leadership opportunities, campus work settings, collaboration, diversity and community building.