At This Time and In This Place (eBook, PDF)

Vocation and Higher Education
Redaktion: Cunningham, David S.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Seeking to deepen current scholarly engagement with vocational exploration in both theory and practice, At This Time and In This Place champions the themes of calling and vocation as key elements of effective undergraduate education. Growing out of a year-long seminar sponsored by the Council of Independent Colleges and its Network for Vocation in Undergraduate Education (NetVUE), this book brings together a nationwide group of scholars from a variety of disciplines in order to produce new scholarly writing on this topic. It offers a historical and theoretical account of vocational reflection and discernment and also suggests how these endeavors can be carried out through specific educational practices. Attending both to the current state of higher education and to broader cultural trends, the contributors examine the contours of vocation from historical, theological, and philosophical perspectives. They consider the relationship between vocation and virtue, both of which encourage the cultivation of habits that lead to a life marked by flourishing and fulfillment-for oneself and for others. The authors also discuss how to engage students in actively reflecting on questions of meaning and purpose through classroom conversations, co-curricular activities, programs for community engagement, and attention to a campus's physical features. At This Time and In This Place offers a compelling argument for vocational reflection and discernment in undergraduate education and represents a significant contribution to the emerging scholarly literature in this field.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190243937
• Artikelnr.: 43418126

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

* Foreword - Richard H. Ekman, President, Council of Independent
Colleges
* Preface
* Vocations of the Contributors
* Introduction: Time and Place: Why Vocation is Crucial to
Undergraduate Education Today - David S. Cunningham
* Part One: Vocation in the Current Cultural Context
* Chapter 1: Actually, You Can't Be Anything You Want (And it's a Good
Thing, Too) - William T. Cavanaugh
* Chapter 2: Finding the Center as Things Fly Apart: Vocation and the
Common Good - Cynthia A. Wells
* Chapter 3: Vocational Discernment: A Pedagogy of Humanization - Caryn
D. Riswold
* Part Two: The Contours of Vocation
* Chapter 4: Places of Responsibility: Educating for Multiple Callings
in Multiple Communities - Kathryn A. Kleinhans
* Chapter 5: Stories of Call: From Dramatic Phenomena to Changed Lives
- Charles Pinches
* Chapter 6: "Who's There?": The Dramatic Role of the "Caller" in
Vocational Discernment - David S. Cunningham
* Chapter 7: Vocation and Story: Narrating Self and World - Douglas V.
Henry
* Part Three: Vocation and Virtue
* Chapter 8: An Itinerary of Hope: Called to a Magnanimous Way of Life
- Paul J. Wadell
* Chapter 9: Seeing with All Three Eyes: The Virtue of Prudence and
Undergraduate Education - Thomas Albert Howard
* Chapter 10: Commitment and Community: The Virtue of Loyalty and
Vocational Discernment - Hannah Schell
* Part Four: Vocational Discernment Beyond the Classroom
* Chapter 11: Rituals, Contests, and Images: Vocational Discernment
Beyond the Classroom - Quincy D. Brown
* Chapter 12: Sound and Space: Making Vocation Audible - Stephen H.
Webb
* Chapter 13: Self, World, and the Space Between: Community Engagement
as Vocational Discernment - Darby Kathleen Ray
* Epilogue: In Various Times and Sundry Places: Pedagogies of Vocation,
Vocation as Pedagogy - David S. Cunningham