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Making Their Own Way: Narratives for Transforming Higher Education to Promote Self-Development

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Making Their Own Way follows the journeys of young adults who participated in a unique longitudinal study of 101 male and female college students begun in 1986 by Marcia Magolda. Drawn from over 300 interviews taken from graduation to their early thirties, we see through the participants' own stories the role of higher education as a preparation for participation in contemporary life outside academia. Magolda provides both observation and analysis as she derives a new framework for higher education designed to achieve better stewarding and fostering of students during the journey of transformation and maturation attendant to the years of higher education experience. An experience whose totality aspires to better prepare these men and women to assume leadership roles in the opening decades of the twenty-first century. Making Their Own Way is strongly recommended reading for educators concerned with the holistic development of their students and higher education's role in foster critical thinking, citizenship, and civic leadership.