Marcia B. Baxter Magolda is associate professor of educational leadership at Miami University. She received
the American College Personnel Association Theory and Research Board Award in 1986 and 1989. The author of many
articles on intellectual development and gAnder issues, Baxter Magolda also serves on the editorial board of the
Journal of College Student Development.
Summary
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.
Based on a five-year longitudinal study in which students were interviewed annually from their first year in
college to the year after graduation.
Table of Contents
Part One: Understanding Gender-Related Patterns in Knowing
1. Studying Ways of Knowing
2. Gender-Related Patterns in Knowing
3. Absolute Knowing: Receiving and Mastering Knowledge
4. Transitional Knowing: Interpersonal and Impersonal Patterns
5. Independent Knowing: Embracing and Subordinating Others' Ideas
6. Contextual Knowing: Integrating One's Own and Others' Ideas
7. Relating the Patterns to Diverse Student Populations
Part Two: Implications for Academic and Student Affairs
8. Teaching Responsively to Different Ways of Knowing
9. Developing Students in the Classroom
10. Supporting Patterns of Knowing in the Cocurriculum
11. Promoting Cocurricular Learning
12. Becoming Responsive to Ways of Knowing in Higher Education
Resources:
A. Context of the Study: Miami University
B. Design and Methods Used in the Study
C. Study Interview and Questionnaire
