Higher education today faces challenges from all sides, but college can provide young people with an opportunity to explore what it means to live a meaningful life. Increasingly, undergraduate education encourages students to reflect on their many callings in life, but this does not need to be a purely individual pursuit. This volume provides an argument for helping students to think about the interconnectedness of individual and communal life as they reflect on their various vocations.
Higher education today faces challenges from all sides, but college can provide young people with an opportunity to explore what it means to live a meaningful life. Increasingly, undergraduate education encourages students to reflect on their many callings in life, but this does not need to be a purely individual pursuit. This volume provides an argument for helping students to think about the interconnectedness of individual and communal life as they reflect on their various vocations.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Erin VanLaningham is Professor of English at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa. Her research fields include the British novel, Irish literature and culture, and aesthetics and gender studies. She is a contributor to and co-editor of Cultivating Vocation in Literary Studies. She directs the Scholarly Resources Project for the Network for Vocation in Undergraduate Education (NetVUE), a program of the Council of Independent Colleges, and co-hosts the NetVUE podcast, Callings.
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* Foreword by Marjorie Hass * Preface * Vocations of the Contributors * Introduction: Whose Good Life?: Vocation and Communal Flourishing-- Erin VanLaningham * PART ONE: Vocation in the Commons * 1. Our Call as Response: The Common Good as the Context of Vocation--David Matzko McCarthy * 2. Beyond Deep Gladness: Lamenting Trauma, Injustice, and Suffering in Service of the Flourishing of All--Deanna A. Thompson * 3. Overturning for the Common Good: Membership and Mutuality in a World of Markets and Meritocracy--Christine Jeske * 4. Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice: Institutional Mission as the Call of the Common Good--Monica M. Smith * PART TWO: Transformations of the Common Good * 5. The Vocation of Advocacy: Enacting a More Just World--Michelle Hayford * 6. Queer Vocation and the Uncommon Good--Geoffrey W. Bateman * 7. Expanding the Borders of a Common Good: Transformational Encounters--Jonathan Golden * PART THREE: Pedagogies and Practices for the Common Good * 8. A Too Uncommon, Common Good: The Role of Deliberation and Dialogue in Vocational Discernment--David Timmerman * 9. Reading with Strangers: Our Collective Vocation--Erin VanLaningham * 10. A Case for Compassionate Pedagogy: Caring for the Public's Health, Cultivating Sustainable Vocations--Meghan M. Slining * PART FOUR: Callings of Campus, Community, and Beyond * 11. The University as the (Common) Good Place--Robert J. Pampel * 12. The Yarn in the Tapestry: Weaving Memory into History, Vocation, and Our Common Life--Martin Holt Dotterweich * 13. What We Are Up Against: Reforming the Vocation of Higher Education for Formation throughout Our Lives--Charles Mathewes * Epilogue * Towards an Ecology of the Common Good: Vocation in the Gaps--Erin VanLaningham * Index of Names * Index of Subjects
* Foreword by Marjorie Hass * Preface * Vocations of the Contributors * Introduction: Whose Good Life?: Vocation and Communal Flourishing-- Erin VanLaningham * PART ONE: Vocation in the Commons * 1. Our Call as Response: The Common Good as the Context of Vocation--David Matzko McCarthy * 2. Beyond Deep Gladness: Lamenting Trauma, Injustice, and Suffering in Service of the Flourishing of All--Deanna A. Thompson * 3. Overturning for the Common Good: Membership and Mutuality in a World of Markets and Meritocracy--Christine Jeske * 4. Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice: Institutional Mission as the Call of the Common Good--Monica M. Smith * PART TWO: Transformations of the Common Good * 5. The Vocation of Advocacy: Enacting a More Just World--Michelle Hayford * 6. Queer Vocation and the Uncommon Good--Geoffrey W. Bateman * 7. Expanding the Borders of a Common Good: Transformational Encounters--Jonathan Golden * PART THREE: Pedagogies and Practices for the Common Good * 8. A Too Uncommon, Common Good: The Role of Deliberation and Dialogue in Vocational Discernment--David Timmerman * 9. Reading with Strangers: Our Collective Vocation--Erin VanLaningham * 10. A Case for Compassionate Pedagogy: Caring for the Public's Health, Cultivating Sustainable Vocations--Meghan M. Slining * PART FOUR: Callings of Campus, Community, and Beyond * 11. The University as the (Common) Good Place--Robert J. Pampel * 12. The Yarn in the Tapestry: Weaving Memory into History, Vocation, and Our Common Life--Martin Holt Dotterweich * 13. What We Are Up Against: Reforming the Vocation of Higher Education for Formation throughout Our Lives--Charles Mathewes * Epilogue * Towards an Ecology of the Common Good: Vocation in the Gaps--Erin VanLaningham * Index of Names * Index of Subjects
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