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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|10 pages
Introduction
part 1|38 pages
Transdisciplinary, purpose-based, and community-engaged approaches to vocation
chapter 4|11 pages
Developing vocational wisdom conducting group history projects
part 2|32 pages
Discovering the call to learn, lead, and serve through experiential learning
chapter 5|14 pages
Helping students who enter college with a desire to serve discern vocation
chapter 6|16 pages
Let us sing to the Lord
part 3|40 pages
Educators exploring their own callings and building supportive environments for vocation
chapter 7|12 pages
The teaching gig
part 4|30 pages
Dialogue, community-building, and the role of peer leaders in vocation education
chapter 11|15 pages
Integral ecology, living our questions, and an expanded community vision
part 5|42 pages
The value of vocational discernment in career exploration