Claiming our callings : toward a new understanding of vocation in the liberal arts /

The chapters in this book contend that attention to vocational concerns promotes the civic good promised by defenders of liberal arts education. In doing so, their authors suggest that the good of higher education is larger than the immediate, practical benefit an individual student gains while earn...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Schwehn, Kaethe (Editor ), Lagerquist, L. DeAne (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]
Temas:
St. Olaf College.
St. Olaf College
Education, Humanistic > United States.
Education, Higher > Aims and objectives > United States.
Education, Higher > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Vocation > Study and teaching (Higher) > United States.
Vocation.
Church and college > United States.
College teaching > United States.
Éducation humaniste > États-Unis.
Enseignement supérieur > Finalités > États-Unis.
Église et université > États-Unis.
EDUCATION > Essays.
EDUCATION > Organizations & Institutions.
EDUCATION > Reference.
Church and college
College teaching
Education, Higher > Aims and objectives
Education, Humanistic
Vocation
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Getting a vocation : variations on a Lutheran theme / L. DeAne Lagerquist
  • Good work and the good life : vocation as what we do / James J. Farrell
  • Work in progress / Diane Leblanc
  • On teaching politics as a vocation / Douglas Casson
  • Vocation, psychologically speaking / Donna K. Mcmillan
  • Forty-three and out : on the intrinsic vs. extrinsic rewards of a vocation / Mark Pernecky
  • Meaningful lives, religious pluralism, and the case of the Bodhisattva / Barbara E. Reed
  • Professing vocation by caring for the land / Kathleen L. Shea
  • Vocation and liberal learning : the case for the exploration of vocation across the curriculum / Jo Michelle Beld
  • To practice what we teach : action and reflection / Mary S. Carlsen
  • The power of example : anthropology and vocation / Thomas Williamson
  • Coming into being : Buddhist meditation and the practice of teaching / Carol Holly
  • Professing religion / John D. Barbour.

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