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Magolda, Marcia B. Baxter – New Directions for Higher Education, 1998
Many graduate students lack the capacity for self-authorship, the ability to develop one's own perspective. Data from a longitudinal study of sixteen students, begun in their first year of college, illustrates the difficulty of moving from embracing multiple perspectives to constructing self-authored perspectives. The stories of three graduate…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Graduate Students, Graduate Study, Higher Education