Description
Book SynopsisA unique handbook for collegiate faculty, instructors, administrators, and graduate students in education to help professional and technical students discover meaning, purpose, and vocation through their scholarship. College students are looking for more than instrumental career knowledge and skills, they are looking for something to care about and build their lives around: a vocation. The book provides recommendations to enhance and amplify collegiate professional and technical instruction and curricula to support student discernment of vocation. Teaching for Vocation begins by making a case for teaching for vocation and provides a historical perspective on vocation in Western education. However, the core of the book focuses on the specific elements for an instructional framework on teaching for vocation.
Table of ContentsTable of Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction Answering Mary’s Question
Chapter 1Vocation in the History of Education
Chapter 2Vocation in Context
Cognition and Vocation
Spirituality and Personal Knowledge
Liberal Learning and Vocation
Vocational Vocabulary and Narrative
Vocation and Community Service
Vocation and Calling
Conclusion
Chapter 3Authenticity, Mentoring, and Learning Community Elements
Authenticity
Mentoring
Learning Communities
Chapter 4Contemplative Practice Element
Vocation and Cognition
Vocation and Attention
Vocation and Contemplative Practice
Mindfulness
Reflection
Contemplative Reading, Writing, Listening, Seeing
Contemplative Movement
Conclusion
Chapter 5Vocational Narrative Element
Framing
Narrative
Language and vocabulary
Craft, Practice, and Quality
Chapter 6Experiential Learning Element
Service-Learning
Planning and Organizing
Contemplative Practice in Service-Learning
Chapter 7Teaching for Vocation
Using Vocabulary
Using Contemplative Practice
Mindfulness practice: Breathing
Mindfulness practice: Listening
Mindfulness practice: Reading
Mindfulness practice: Writing
Mindfulness practice: Contemplative Movement
Mindfulness practice: Information Technology
Using Service-learning
Planning and Organization
Student Assessment
Service-Learning Project Examples
Program Assessment
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
