|
Product Description
Demonstrates how students and educators can resist narrow, utilitarian views of higher education’s purpose.While the search for meaning and purpose appears to be a constant throughout human history, there are characteristics about our current time period that make this search different from any other previous time, particularly for college students. In this book, Perry L. Glanzer, Jonathan P. Hill, and Byron R. Johnson explore college students’ search for meaning and purpose and the role that higher education plays. To shed empirical light on this complex issue, the authors draw on in-depth interviews with four hundred college students from different types of institutions across the United States. They also analyze three sets of national survey data: the National Study of Youth and Religion, College Students Beliefs and Values, and their own Gallup-conducted survey of 2,500 college students. Their research identifies important social, educational, and cultural influences that shape students’ quests and the answers they find. Arguing against a utilitarian view of education, Glanzer, Hill, and Johnson conclude that colleges and universities can and should cultivate and aid students in their journeys, and they offer suggestions for doing so.
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
- The Practice of Qualitative Research
- Educating About Religious Diversity and Interfaith Engagement: A Handbook for Student Affairs
- Spiritual Formation in Emerging Adulthood: A Practical Theology for College and Young Adult Ministry
- Lost in Transition: The Dark Side of Emerging Adulthood
- College Hookup Culture and Christian Ethics: The Lives and Longings of Emerging Adults
- Faithful: A Theology of Sex (Ordinary Theology)
- The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers Third Edition
- Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race
- The Power of Ideals: The Real Story of Moral Choice
- Contested Issues in Troubled Times: Student Affairs Dialogues on Equity, Civility, and Safety
*If this is not the "The Quest for Purpose: The Collegiate Search for a Meaningful Life" product you were looking for, you can check the other results by clicking this link. Details were last updated on Dec 24, 2024 02:32 +08.