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Claiming Our Callings : Toward a New Understanding of Vocation in the Liberal Arts, Hardback Book

Claiming Our Callings : Toward a New Understanding of Vocation in the Liberal Arts Hardback

Edited by Kaethe (Assistant Professor of English, Assistant Professor of English, St. Olaf College, N Schwehn, L. DeAne (Professor of Religion, Chair of Religion Department, Professor of Religion, Ch Lagerquist

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The idea of ''vocation'' has fallen out of fashion in twenty-first-century America, replaced with careerism and credentialism.

Neither go far in answering the weighty questions of meaning and morality that have always been integral to a vocational pursuit.

Kaethe Schwehn and L. DeAne Lagerquist offer perspectives from fourteen professors at St.

Olaf College on the value of vocation, showing how a focus on one's calling rather than on success or credentials paves the way for the civic good sought by defenders of liberal arts education. Moving beyond abstract generalities, the essays in Claiming Our Callings exemplify the reflective practices at the heart of liberal arts, for faculty and students alike.

Martin E. Marty once said that "The vocation of St. Olaf is vocation,'' and the contributors to this volume draw on their experiences teaching in a range of departments at the College--from biology and economics to history and religion--to reflect on both their calling as professors and their practices for fostering students' ability to identify their own vocations.

All are convinced of the continuing value of the liberal arts, particularly in generating exploration of the meaning and purpose of life.

These scholars' varied notions of how vocation is best understood and cultivated reveal the differing religious commitments and pedagogical practices present within their college community.

Together they demonstrate how the purposes of their own lives intersect creatively with the purposes of higher education and the needs of their students and the world.

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