Diversity in the Classroom and Students’ Moral Reasoning
Campus communities are striving to make sense of their roles in creating educational contexts that help students understand themselves as responsible participants in a tolerant and diverse democracy (Baxter Magolda, 1999; Evans, Forney, & Guido-Dibrito, 1998). Several national reports on higher education have called for colleges and universities to take a more central role in providing moral and democratic education. For example, the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (1997) called for greater attention to “developing character, conscience, citizenship, tolerance, civility, and individual and social responsibility in our students