Claiming Our Callings: Toward A New Understanding Of Vocation In The Liberal Arts

. Ed(s): Schwehn, Kaethe; Lagerquist, L. DeAne

ISBN 10: 0199341052 / ISBN 13: 9780199341054

Published by Oxford University Press, 2014

About this Item

This volume shows how attention to vocation promotes the civic good promised by liberal arts education. The contributors claim their own academic callings and reflect on their practices for fostering students' ability to claim their vocations. Editor(s): Schwehn, Kaethe; Lagerquist, L. DeAne. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HRAM; JHBL; JNM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 234 x 15. Weight in Grams: 302. . 2014. 1st Edition. paperback. . . . .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Claiming Our Callings: Toward A New Understanding Of Vocation In The Liberal Arts
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199341052
• ISBN 13: 9780199341054
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This volume shows how attention to vocation promotes the civic good promised by liberal arts education. The contributors claim their own academic callings and reflect on their practices for fostering students' ability to claim their vocations.

About the Author

Kaethe Schwehn received her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She teaches writing at St. Olaf College. Her poetry and prose appear in anthologies and journals such as Pleiades, Crazyhorse, The Cresset, and Fiction on a Stick.

L. DeAne Lagerquist holds a PhD from the University of Chicago Divinity School. She joined the St. Olaf College faculty in 1988. She has served on the national board of the Lilly Fellows Network of church-related colleges and universities and been a leader in Lutheran higher education.