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Complex Lives Baxter Magolda Chapter Summary

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Within this essay, I will be evaluating and analysing a chapter from Making Their Own Way, titled ‘Complex Lives’ written by Baxter-Magolda. This novel is all about adult learning, which I will be applying learning theories to justify how I understand what this chapter is all about. First, I will write a summary of my own understanding of this specific chapter that was given to us. After that, I will evaluate the trustworthiness of ‘Complex Lives’ through the criteria from Lincoln and Guba. During this evaluation, some of my opinions may be supported by other researchers who have used Baxter-Magolda’s findings within their own research. Baxter-Magolda is a Professor who carried out a longitudinal study of university life and how it transformed …show more content…

How do I want to construct relationships with others? The questions she gave the participants were aimed to understand how adults think about the world and how they change in it. These thoughts and changes then went on to create the epistemological developmental theory. Throughout the rest of the chapter, Baxter-Magolda shifts the notions that the young adults hold within their lives. This plays particular focus on self-authorship and how the students would model what they had learnt and what they wanted to aspire to achieve. Baxter-Magolda, then went on to explain “self-authorship is more than just an acquired skill,” (Baxter, 2001:14). Furthermore, this study also shows the effects of pedagogy and gender development on the young adults’ skills upon self-authorship. This is due to the expectations society have surrounding them. For example, in order to be successful, you need to have high marks in your degree. Therefore, this places more stress and pressure upon the student to think that they aren’t performing well because they have a 2:2. When in reality, this may not be the case, any mark in your degree could be something good and interesting to an employer that would be interviewing you. “Students must develop a strong sense of their own identity” (Fink, L.D, 2013) this relates to the idea of societies expectations don’t always apply to the person. Therefore, knowing who they are and what they do with their identity holds more of an importance that how well they have

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