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Vocation Across the Academy
David S. . Ed(S): Cunningham
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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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
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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99-20
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 ... Read more
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
Frederick W. Schmidt, The Wabash Center Journal On Teaching