ABSTRACT

Bringing together narratives and theory-based analyses of practice, this volume illustrates collaborative curricular and co-curricular approaches to promoting vocational discernment amongst students in a Catholic university setting.

Drawing on cultural, religious, and secular understandings of vocation, Engaging with Vocation on Campus illustrates how contemporary issues around vocation, work, and careers can be addressed within the Catholic intellectual and spiritual tradition. Chapters presents a range of contributions from students, faculty, and staff from a single institution to highlight practical approaches to supporting students in this area, and acknowledge the complementary and intersecting roles played by student support services, academic staff, and on-campus ministry in helping students develop an individualised understanding of vocation. Considering the value of both curricular or non-curricular activities and processes, the volume highlights spiritual, personal, and community value in offering students explicit and tailored support.

This text will benefit researchers, academics, and educators with an interest in higher education, religious education, and the Christian life and experience more broadly. Those specifically interested in career guidance, theological curriculum and pedagogy, and Roman Catholicism will also benefit from this book.

chapter 1|10 pages

Introduction

An institution-wide commitment to vocation in the Catholic intellectual tradition

part 1|38 pages

Transdisciplinary, purpose-based, and community-engaged approaches to vocation

chapter 3|11 pages

From reflection to action

Exploring vocation through life design

chapter 4|11 pages

Developing vocational wisdom conducting group history projects

Learning the personal rewards and social benefits of producing history

part 2|32 pages

Discovering the call to learn, lead, and serve through experiential learning

chapter 6|16 pages

Let us sing to the Lord

Vocational formation through the Undergraduate Music Minister program

part 3|40 pages

Educators exploring their own callings and building supportive environments for vocation

chapter 7|12 pages

The teaching gig

Journeys in faith traditions, popular fictions, and the vocation of learning

chapter 8|13 pages

Vocation

Listening, discerning, and living

part 4|30 pages

Dialogue, community-building, and the role of peer leaders in vocation education

part 5|42 pages

The value of vocational discernment in career exploration

chapter 12|13 pages

Building bodies, building minds

Listening to the call to medical service

chapter 13|11 pages

An instrumental approach to teaching a non-instrumental view to vocation within business schools

How professional credos assist working MBA students explore their callings