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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.
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Kaethe Schwehn is Assistant Professor of English at St. Olaf College.
L. DeAne Lagerquist is Professor of Religion and Chair of the Religion Department at St. Olaf College.
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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.
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Claiming Our Callings is recommended reading for anyone interested in the future of American higher education, whether that education takes place at a church-related institution or a public university or somewhere else .[The book] does not tell colleges and universities what they should do; it does not pontificate about what ought to be. Instead, and much more valuably, it paints a picture of how one particular institution educates students in a manner that inspires reflection on what could be done or might be appropriate. There is no one model of learning and life that applies to all institutions of higher learning, but this record of St. Olaf's experiences opens an important doorway of imagination for what might be possible elsewhere.
