ABSTRACT
When, exactly, does one cease to be a learner? For most of us in academia, we are called to be students first; even if one is called to be a teacher, that’s secondary. Strikingly, though, when we talk about teaching, we think of our vocation as the end of our learning – not the learning process as vocation itself. This chapter, then, explores what it means to think about learning as vocation, specifically as I reflect on my own learning about vocation at the University of Dayton. In this chapter, I describe what students and I learned about vocation when we explored popular fictional stories featuring superheroes with faith commitments. This classroom experience reinforces my own sense of myself as a teacher-learner, reaffirms my original calling to be a learner, and offers for students and others potential models for understanding and practicing their own learning as vocation.
