Creating Contexts for Learning and Self-authorship: Constructive-developmental Pedagogy
- ISBN-10
- 0826513468
- ISBN-13
- 9780826513465
- Category
- Constructivism (Education)
- Pages
- 345
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999
- Publisher
- Vanderbilt University Press
- Author
- Marcia B. Baxter Magolda
Description
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, the author 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. The book also takes abstract pedagogical principles and translates them into practical approaches.--
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