Called Beyond Our Selves

Vocation and the Common Good

Buch | Hardcover

360 Seiten

2024
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-769191-5 (ISBN)

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The concept of vocation in higher education helps undergraduates explore what it means to live a meaningful life. This volume situates vocation within the context of the common good and emphasizes the interconnectedness of individual life and communal life. In this meeting place between self and others, we are called beyond our selves.

The contributors--drawing from diverse academic disciplines and experiences-propose that when we prioritize the well-being of all, our notions of success and purpose are elevated. They argue that this necessary shift in vocational frameworks allows college educators to challenge dominant ways of thinking about vocation as well as thinking about what is “common” and what is “good.” The contributors offer pedagogies, models, and practices that orient vocation towards the well-being of the community--highlighting the importance of justice, compassion, dialogue, and action in our responses to the traumas of personal, historical, and communal life.

Given the increasing polarization of contemporary civic life and the challenges of the higher education landscape, educating for vocation brings skills and practices that can address such pressing issues. When we orient vocation towards collective well-being, we can better hear and respond to others, near and far. Building on the earlier three volumes in this series, this volume's contributors challenge our campuses and communities to reframe our notions of success to prioritize mutual flourishing for the common good.

Erin VanLaningham is Professor of English at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa. Her research fields include the British novel, Irish literature and culture, and aesthetics and gender studies. She is a contributor to and co-editor of Cultivating Vocation in Literary Studies. She directs the Scholarly Resources Project for the Network for Vocation in Undergraduate Education (NetVUE), a program of the Council of Independent Colleges, and co-hosts the NetVUE podcast, Callings.

Foreword by Marjorie Hass
Preface
Vocations of the Contributors

Introduction: Whose Good Life?: Vocation and Communal Flourishing-- Erin VanLaningham

PART ONE: Vocation in the Commons

1. Our Call as Response: The Common Good as the Context of Vocation--David Matzko McCarthy
2. Beyond Deep Gladness: Lamenting Trauma, Injustice, and Suffering in Service of the Flourishing of All--Deanna A. Thompson
3. Overturning for the Common Good: Membership and Mutuality in a World of Markets and Meritocracy--Christine Jeske
4. Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice: Institutional Mission as the Call of the Common Good--Monica M. Smith

PART TWO: Transformations of the Common Good

5. The Vocation of Advocacy: Enacting a More Just World--Michelle Hayford
6. Queer Vocation and the Uncommon Good--Geoffrey W. Bateman
7. Expanding the Borders of a Common Good: Transformational Encounters--Jonathan Golden

PART THREE: Pedagogies and Practices for the Common Good

8. A Too Uncommon, Common Good: The Role of Deliberation and Dialogue in Vocational Discernment--David Timmerman
9. Reading with Strangers: Our Collective Vocation--Erin VanLaningham
10. A Case for Compassionate Pedagogy: Caring for the Public's Health, Cultivating Sustainable Vocations--Meghan M. Slining

PART FOUR: Callings of Campus, Community, and Beyond

11. The University as the (Common) Good Place--Robert J. Pampel
12. The Yarn in the Tapestry: Weaving Memory into History, Vocation, and Our Common Life--Martin Holt Dotterweich
13. What We Are Up Against: Reforming the Vocation of Higher Education for Formation throughout Our Lives--Charles Mathewes

Epilogue
Towards an Ecology of the Common Good: Vocation in the Gaps--Erin VanLaningham

Index of Names
Index of Subjects

Erscheinungsdatum	19.01.2024
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	163 x 226 mm
Gewicht	612 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
ISBN-10	0-19-769191-9 / 0197691919
ISBN-13	978-0-19-769191-5 / 9780197691915
Zustand	Neuware