Teaching to Inspire Vocation: Restoring a Critical Element of Professional and Technical Education

by Timothy C. Hohn

Overview

A unique handbook for collegiate faculty, instructors, administrators, and graduate students in education to help professional and technical students discover meaning and purpose through their scholarship. College students are looking for more than instrumental career knowledge and skills, they are looking for something to care about and build their lives around: a vocation. This book provides recommendations to enhance and amplify collegiate professional and technical instruction and curricula to support student discernment of vocation. Teaching to Inspire Vocation makes a case for teaching for vocation and provides a historical perspective on vocation in Western education. The core of the book focuses on the specific elements for an instructional framework on teaching for vocation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781475864205
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	01/15/2024
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	228
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Timothy C. Hohn is a retired faculty member and Chair of the Horticulture Department at Edmonds College, where he taught horticulture for 22 years. He received a Masters degree in Public Garden Management from the University of Delaware’s Longwood Program in 1986 and is the author of Curatorial Practices for Botanical Gardens, also by Rowman&Littlefield.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents


Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction Answering Mary’s Question

Chapter 1Vocation in the History of Education

Chapter 2Vocation in Context
Cognition and Vocation
Spirituality and Personal Knowledge
Liberal Learning and Vocation
Vocational Vocabulary and Narrative
Vocation and Community Service
Vocation and Calling
Conclusion

Chapter 3Authenticity, Mentoring, and Learning Community Elements
Authenticity
Mentoring
Learning Communities

Chapter 4Contemplative Practice Element
Vocation and Cognition
Vocation and Attention
Vocation and Contemplative Practice
Mindfulness
Reflection
Contemplative Reading, Writing, Listening, Seeing
Contemplative Movement
Conclusion

Chapter 5Vocational Narrative Element
Framing
Narrative
Language and vocabulary
Craft, Practice, and Quality
Chapter 6Experiential Learning Element
Service-Learning
Planning and Organizing
Contemplative Practice in Service-Learning

Chapter 7Teaching for Vocation
Using Vocabulary
Using Contemplative Practice
Mindfulness practice: Breathing
Mindfulness practice: Listening
Mindfulness practice: Reading
Mindfulness practice: Writing
Mindfulness practice: Contemplative Movement
Mindfulness practice: Information Technology
Using Service-learning
Planning and Organization
Student Assessment
Service-Learning Project Examples
Program Assessment

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Editorial Reviews

Tim Hohn has filled a noticeable gap in the growing literature on vocation and calling. Having spent his career teaching and advising students in technical and professional fields, he has developed a deep awareness of the vocational challenges that these students face. His book is filled with helpful narratives and practical advice that will make a genuine difference for college teachers and their students. For educators at community colleges and technical institutes, Teaching to Inspire Vocation is essential reading; but at four-year liberal arts institutions as well, teachers and advisors will find practical wisdom and useful suggestions to support their classroom teaching and improve conversations with advisees at all stages of life. If our students are to discern their vocations, they will need mentors who—in their teaching and advising—have found their own calling; we can all be grateful that Tim Hohn has found his.

David S. Cunningham

"Hohn has done a wonderful job synthesizing a broad range of important ideas and findings, and I wish him much success with the book. It deserves a wide reading."

Timothy Clydesdale