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David S. . Ed(S): Cunningham - Vocation Across the Academy - 9780190607104 - V9780190607104
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Vocation Across the Academy

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Description for Vocation Across the Academy Hardback. The language of vocation and calling can encourage faculty and students to venture out of their academic silos and to reflect on larger questions of meaning and purpose. With contributors from across different disciplines, this volume makes a compelling case for vocational reflection and discernment in undergraduate education today. Editor(s): Cunningham, David S. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: HRAM; JNAM; JNM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 164 x 31. Weight in Grams: 628.
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.

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780190607104
SKU
V9780190607104
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99-40

About David S. . Ed(S): Cunningham
David S. Cunningham is Professor of Religion at Hope College, where he also serves as Director of the CrossRoads Project and of the Klooster Center for Excellence in Writing. He is the author of five books and editor of three collections on various topics in theology, ethics, and higher education. In 2009, he helped to launch the Network for Vocation in Undergraduate Education (NetVUE); he currently serves as the Director of the NetVUE Scholarly Resources Project.

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

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