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Vocation across the Academy

A New Vocabulary for Higher Education

Format: Hardback
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, New York, United States
Published: 2nd Mar 2017
Dimensions: w 164mm h 242mm d 32mm
Weight: 628g
ISBN-10: 0190607106
ISBN-13: 9780190607104
Barcode No: 9780190607104
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Synopsis
Although the language of vocation was born in a religious context, the contributors in this volume demonstrate that it has now moved well beyond that context to be of value to a much wider range of concerns. This volume makes a compelling case for vocational reflection and discernment in undergraduate education today, arguing that it will encourage faculty and students alike to venture out of their narrow disciplinary specializations and to reflect on larger questions of meaning and purpose. In conversation with a growing range of scholarly resources, these essays advance the cause of vocational reflection and discernment well beyond its occasional mention in general education courses and career placement offices. The book's thirteen contributors include biologists and musicians, sociologists and engineers, doctors and lawyers, college presidents and deans, and scholars of history, literature, and business administration. Together, they demonstrate that vocation has an important role to play across the entire range of traditional academic disciplines and applied fields. Regardless of major, all undergraduates need to consider their current and future responsibilities, determine the stories they will live by, and discover resources for addressing the tensions that will inevitably arise among their multiple callings. Vocation across the Academy will help to reframe current debates about the purpose of higher education. It underscores the important role that colleges and universities can play in encouraging students to reflect more deeply on life's most persistent questions and to consider how they might best contribute to the common good.

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[a] welcome effort to recapture the inspiration of vocation as a locus for higher education. * Frederick W. Schmidt, The Wabash Center Journal On Teaching *