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Called Beyond Our Selves: Vocation and the Common Good

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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

Table of Contents:
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


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780197691915
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Height: 226 mm
  • No of Pages: 360
  • Spine Width: 51 mm
  • Weight: 612 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0197691919
  • Publisher Date: 02 May 2024
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Vocation and the Common Good
  • Width: 163 mm


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