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"'The Long Obedience...': Biblical Reflections on the Vocation of Administrative Service"
Senior, Donald
The Seminary Journal 2 (Fall 1998)
1998

•	Theological Education

•	Faculty Development

•	Vocation of Teaching

"A Teaching Life"
Walck, Christa L.
Journal of Management Education 21, no. 4 (1997): 473-482
1997

•	Vocation of Teaching

"Academic Administration as an Inner Journey"
Smith, Gordon T.
Theological Education 33 (Supplement 1996): 61-70
1996

•	Faculty Development

•	Vocation of Teaching

"Beyond the Faith-Knowledge Dichotomy: Teaching as Vocation"
Newman, Elizabeth
in Professing in the Postmodern Academy : Faculty and the Future of Church-related Colleges (Waco, TX : Baylor University Press, 2002), 131-148
2002

•	Theological Education

•	Vocation of Teaching

•	Religion and Academia

"Calling Prowls About in Our Lives"
Keller, Rosemary
Quarterly Review (Fall, 1995): 227-236
1995

•	Vocation of Teaching

"Chapter Nine"
Steiner, George
in Errata: An Examined Life (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998), 136-158
1998

•	Vocation of Teaching

"Collegiality as a Moral and Ethical Practice"
Copeland, M. Shawn
in Practice What You Preach (Franklin, WI: Sheed & Ward, 1999): 315-333
1999
From the Publisher
Calling for accountability, Practice What You Preach discusses ethical questions that arise in congregations and pastoral leadership. Formation of pastors, empowering leaders, resolving power struggles between clergy and laity--these and other critical pastoral issues are addressed by an ecumenical group of contributors. Divided into four parts: the way the churches train their pastors; the way their pastors live; the way communities...

•	Faculty Development

•	Theological Education

•	Vocation of Teaching

"Crossing Over into Postmodernity: Educational Invitations"
Pazmio, Robert W.
in God Our Teacher: Theological Basics in Christian Education, (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 2001), 243-252
2001

•	Vocation of Teaching

"Education Marked with the Sign of the Cross"
Buckley, Michael J.
America 163, no. 5 (1990): 100-103
1990

•	Theological Education

•	Vocation of Teaching

"Evoking the Spirit"
Palmer, Parker J.
Educational Leadership 56, no. 4 (1998): 6-11
1998

•	Method and Theory

•	Vocation of Teaching

"Good Talk About Good Teaching"
Palmer, Parker J.
Change Nov/Dec (1993): 8-13
1993

•	Method and Theory

•	Vocation of Teaching

"Good Teaching: A Matter of Living the Mystery"
Palmer, Parker
Change Jan/Feb (1990): 11-16
1990

•	Vocation of Teaching

Answering the Call: African American Women in Higher Education Leadership
From the Publisher

Although much has been written about leaders and leadership, we unfortunately know little about women, particularly minority women, who fill this particular role.

This book the second in a series that explores women leaders in different contexts presents the stories, and the reflections on their paths to leadership, of seven African American women. Five are, or have been, college presidents; three have devoted...

•	Diversity

•	Gender

•	Vocation of Teaching

•	Faculty Development

A Buddhist in the Classroom
Brown, Sid
State University of New York Press
2008
From the Publisher
Sid Brown brings a Buddhist perspective into the classroom to explore the ethical quandaries, lived experiences and intimacy of teaching. Addressing such topics as attention, community, rage, wonder, consumerism, and kindness, Brown demonstrates how this centuries-old tradition can enrich and inform classroom life.

•	Vocation of Teaching

•	Method and Theory

•	Religion and Academia

"Member-at-Large: An Interview with Tina Pippin, Recipient of the Inaugural AAR Excellence in Teaching Award"
Peterson, Thomas
Religious Studies News 16, no. 1 (2001): 19-20
2001

•	Teaching Religion

•	Vocation of Teaching

"Of Monks' Cells and Wagon Trains, Excellence and Collegiality"
Jarvis, Donald K.
Focus on Faculty 4, no. 3 (1996): 1-2
1996

•	The Academy

•	Faculty Development

•	Vocation of Teaching

"On Minding Your Call- When No One is Calling"
Palmer, Parker J.
Weavings XI, no. 3 (1996)

•	Vocation of Teaching

"Professing the Faith: Reflections on a Vocation"
Bondi, Roberta, Beverly R. Gaventa, S. Mark Heim, Miroslav Volf, and William H. Willimon
Christian Century (Feb 7-14, 1996): 128-137
1996

•	Theological Education

•	Vocation of Teaching

"Rethinking What It Means to be a Scholar"
Rice, R. Eugene
Teaching Excellence 1, no. 8 (1990)
1990

•	Faculty Development

•	Vocation of Teaching

"Scaling the Heights: the Teacher as Mountaineer"
Hill, Nancy K.
The Chronicle of Higher Education, 16 June 1980
1980

•	Vocation of Teaching

"Scholarship: A Sacred Vocation"
Pelikan, Jaroslav
Scholarly Publishing 16, no. 1 (1984): 19
1984

•	Faculty Development

•	Vocation of Teaching

"Seasons of Academic Life: Honoring Our Collective Autobiography"
Knefelkamp, L. Lee
Liberal Education 76, no. 3, (1990): 4-11
1990

•	Vocation of Teaching

"Social Vision and Moral Courage: Mentoring a New Generation"
Parks, Sharon Daloz
Cross Currents 40, no. 3 (1990): 351-367
1990

•	Faculty Development

•	Vocation of Teaching

•	Mentoring

"Socializing Future Faculty to the Values of Undergraduate Education"
Gaff, Jerry G., and Leo M. Lambert
Change July/Aug (1996): 38-45
1996

•	Faculty Development

•	The Academy

•	Graduate Students

•	Vocation of Teaching

"Spirituality and Higher Learning: Thinking and Loving"
Bondi, Roberta C.
The Cresset (June 1993): 5-12
1993

•	Vocation of Teaching

"Teaching from the Heart: Seasons of Renewal in A Teacher's Life with Parker J. Palmer"

•	Vocation of Teaching

"The Faculty Members of the Future: How Are They Being Shaped?"
Wheeler, Barbara G.
Christian Century (Feb 4-11, 1998): 106-149
1998

•	Faculty Development

•	Graduate Students

•	Theological Education

•	Vocation of Teaching

"The Grace of Teaching"
Boys, Mary C.
The Cresset (June 1996): 11-16
1996

•	Vocation of Teaching

"The Heart of a Teacher: Identity and Integrity in Teaching"
Palmer, Parker J.
Change Nov/Dec (1997): 15-21
1997

•	Method and Theory

•	Vocation of Teaching

"The New Testament and the Examined Life: Thoughts on Teaching"
Johnson, Luke Timothy
Christian Century (Feb 1-8, 1995): 108-115
1995

•	Theological Education

•	Vocation of Teaching

"The Professor's Vocations: Reflections on the Teacher as Writer"
Jinkins, Michael
Teaching Theology and Religion 7, no. 2 (2004): 64-70
2004
The following essay is based on an oral presentation, "On Being a Good Teacher and a Good Writer," which the author was asked to make for the Southwest Commission on Religious Studies, March 16, 2003. The purpose of the presentation was to encourage conversation among theological educators on the character of their vocation. A panel discussion of the theme followed the presentation. The presentation was designed to engage this subject at an autobiographical...

•	"Teaching Theology and Religion" (Wabash journal)

•	Vocation of Teaching

"The Re-examination of Faculty Priorities"
Edgerton, Russell
Change July/Aug (1993): 10-25
1993

•	Faculty Development

•	Vocation of Teaching

"The Spirituality of the Religious Educator"
Groome, Thomas H.
Religious Education 83, no. 1 (1998): 9-20
1988

•	Theological Education

•	Vocation of Teaching

•	Religious Education

"The Vocation of Teaching: Themes and Models from the Presbyterian Tradition"
Cowan, Margaret P., Roger P. Ebertz & Mary E. Shiels
Teaching Theology and Religion 5, no. 3 (2002): 141-148
2002
Historically, the Presbyterian/Reformed tradition has placed a heavy emphasis on education and has honored teaching as an important vocation. This paper begins to explore insights and models that tradition offers to help teachers clarify their calling. The article discusses five themes in Reformed theology and how these themes play out in an educational context, providing examples from one Presbyterian college. The paper concludes by suggesting four...

•	"Teaching Theology and Religion" (Wabash journal)

•	Vocation of Teaching

"Visualizing Yourself As A Successful College Teacher, Writer, and Colleague"
Moody, JoAnn
in Demystifying the Profession: Helping Junior Faculty Succeed (New Haven, CT: University of New Haven Press, 1997), 1-10
1997

•	Faculty Development

•	Vocation of Teaching

A Life in School: What the Teacher Learned
Tompkins, Jane
Perseus Books, Reading, MA
1996
From the Publisher
Tompkins is an English professor at Duke. The book is autobiographical and profoundly evocative. It is an intense interpretation of the innertwinings of her personal and professional life. Tompkins discusses her life--from elementary school, through her doctoral program at Yale, through her life as a nontenured and then tenured faculty member--and, in the process, discusses issues that are important to so many of us in the Academy....

•	Vocation of Teaching

"What's Your Philosophy on Teaching, and Does it Matter?"
Montell, Gabriela
The Chronicle of Higher Education, 27 March 2003
2003

•	Faculty Development

•	Vocation of Teaching

A Professor's Work
Melko, Matthew
University Press of America, Lanham, MD
1998
From the Publisher
A Professor's Work attempts to clear up questions about the role of the college professor in society by providing a field study of what a professor actually does. The author organizes a year of his work and his colleagues into an overview of a years teaching, research, and service. The first section describes the service work, including a depiction of the search for a new faculty member, and a committee that investigated the...

•	Vocation of Teaching

Big Questions, Worthy Dreams: Mentoring Young Adults in Their Search For Meaning,Purpose, and Faith
Daloz Parks, Sharon
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
2000
From the Publisher
A smart, compassionate look at the important and often bewildering questions young adults face in their search for purpose, meaning and faith, and a clarion call to concerned adults to actively mentor the next generation.

•	Vocation of Teaching

•	Mentoring

Calling: Essays on Teaching in the Mother Tongue
Griffin, Gail B.
Trilogy Books, Pasadena, CA
1992
From the Publisher
With a mixture of autobiographical facts and literary insights, the author (English, Kalamazoo Coll.) supports her belief that the ``motherheart must be at the center of all teaching.'' Teachers should ``create an environment where human beings can grow in and toward the fullness of themselves.'' This type of teaching is exemplified by the women teachers in higher education of the mid-1800s who, as the author found following...

•	Gender

•	Vocation of Teaching

Classrooms Without Fear: A Journey to Rediscover the Joy of Teaching
Marino, Thomas A.
New Forums Press, Stillwater, OK
2001
From the Publisher
Here is one teacher's story about his personal journey toward a safe classroom for his students. He explains how new technologies, rising education costs - but most important personal, inward changes - forced a reexamination of his teaching methods and goals.

•	Vocation of Teaching

Common Fire: Leading Lives of Commitment in a Complex World
Daloz, Laurent A. Parks, Cheryl H. Keen, James P. Keen and Sharon Daloz Parks
Beacon Press, Boston, MA
1996
From the Publisher
This book is as much, perhaps more, an exhortation to action than a piece of social science research. In an age when the idols of the tribe or the centrality of self are aggrandized, is it possible to restore a sense of human purpose that extends beyond place or person? To answer this question a core of 100 people, determined as "capable of sustaining commitment to the common good in the face of global complexity," were interviewed,...

•	Vocation of Teaching

Educating for Shalom: Essays on Christian Higher Education
Wolterstorff, Nicholas
Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, MI
2004
From the Publisher
In addition to his notable work as a premier Christian philosopher, Nicholas Wolterstorff has become a leading voice on faith-based higher education. This volume gathers the best of Wolterstorff's essays from the past twenty-five years dealing collectively with the purpose of Christian higher education and the nature of academic learning.

Integrated throughout by the biblical idea of shalom, these nineteen essays present...

•	Vocation of Teaching

•	Religion and Academia

Everyone a Teacher
Schwehn, Mark
University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, IN
2000
From the Publisher
"All of us teach," begins Mark Schwehn's anthology of readings on teaching and learning. Teaching is woven into the fabric of our everyday lives. It includes training children, forming habits and characters, witnessing to a way of life, nurturing reflection and imagination, and imparting goals as well as facts and skills. Teachers are parents, grandparents, spouses, friends, neighbors, pastors, siblings, and co-workers, as well...

•	Vocation of Teaching

Education as Transformation: Religious Pluralism, Spirituality, & a New Vision for Higher Education in America
Kazanjian, Victor, Jr., and Peter L. Laurence, editors
Peter Lang, New York, NY
2006
From the Publisher
Reflecting a national movement that seeks to create a more holistic model of learning and teaching on college and university campuses, Education as Transformation is a collection of twenty-eight essays written by a wide range of educators - including presidents, chancellors, deans, faculty members, administrators, religious life professionals, students, and other leaders in the field of education - on the themes of religious...

•	Religion and Academia

•	Vocation of Teaching

Excellent Teaching in a Changing Academy: Essays in Honor of Kenneth Eble
Jussawalla, Feroza, ed.
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
1990
From the Publisher
Are the new elitism and conservatism that are creeping into academia degrading undergraduate education? This volume seeks not to resolve the issues surrounding academia today but rather to mark the contested points in the debates on whether to incorporate cultural diversity in the curriculum, whether to compete for the research dollar, and how to evaluate faculty humanely in a changing atmosphere. As Eble urged, in the 1990s...

•	General Best Practices

•	Vocation of Teaching

Exiles from Eden: Religion and the Academic Vocation in America
Schwehn, Mark R.
Oxford University Press, New York, NY
1993
From the Publisher
Exiles From Eden sounds a call to the American academic community to begin seeking a solution to the many problems facing higher education today by rediscovering a proper sense of its vocation. Schwehn argues that the modern university has forgotten its spiritual foundations and that it needs to reappropriate those foundations before it can creatively and responsibly reform itself. The first part of the book offers a critical...

•	Religion and Academia

•	Vocation of Teaching

Fieldguide for Teaching in a New Century: Ideas from Fellow Travellers CD-Printed TOC included.(see Notes below for additional resource)

•	General Best Practices

•	Vocation of Teaching

Honoring Exemplary Teaching
Menges, Robert and Marilla Svinicki
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
1996
From the Publisher
Many colleges and universities are attempting to increase the recognition they give to those faculty who go beyond mere competence and truly represent the best teaching higher education has to offer. What is the promise of programs to honor exemplary teaching? What pitfalls must they avoid? This issue of New Directions for Teaching and Learning describes programs in a variety of settings and with varying purposes. It reviews...

•	Assessment of Teaching

•	Vocation of Teaching

In Plato's Cave
Kernan, Alvin
Yale University Press, New Haven, CT
1999
From the Publisher
In this candid and delightful memoir, Alvin Kernan recalls his life as a student, professor, provost, and dean during turbulent decades of change in the hallowed halls of Columbia, Williams, Oxford, Yale, and Princeton. His vividly remembered account is a unique personal story and more--it is also a history of what has been won, and lost, in the culture wars of the second half of the twentieth century.

•	Vocation of Teaching

Inspiring Teaching: Carnegie Professors of the Year Speak
Roth, John K., editor
Anker Publishing, Bolton, MA
1997
From the Publisher
Each year since 1981, the Carnegie Foundation and the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education receives and reviews over 600 nominations for their prestigious Professor of the Year award. Together with a group of higher education experts, Carnegie and CASE conduct interviews with the candidates, looking for excellence in numerous areas: impact on and involvement with students; service to students, institution, community,...

•	Vocation of Teaching

Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation
Palmer, Parker J.
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
2000
From the Publisher
With wisdom, compassion, and gentle humor, Parker J. Palmer invites us to listen to the inner teacher and follow its leadings toward a sense of meaning and purpose. Telling stories from his own life and the lives of others who have made a difference, he shares insights gained from darkness and depression as well as fulfillment and joy, illuminating a pathway toward vocation for all who seek the true calling of their lives. ...

•	Vocation of Teaching

Letters to a Teacher
Pickering, Sam
Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, NY
2004
From the Publisher
Sam Pickering has been teaching, guiding, performing, and inspiring for more than forty years. As a young English teacher at Montgomery Bell Academy in Tennessee, his musings on literature and his maverick pedagogy touched a student named Tommy Schulman, who later wrote the screenplay for Dead Poets Society. Letters to a Teacher is a welcome reminder that teaching is a joy and an art. In ten graceful yet conversational letters...

•	Vocation of Teaching

Minding the Light: Essays in Friendly Pedagogy
Dalke, Anne and Barbara Dixson, editors
Peter Lang, New York, NY
2004
From the Publisher
This book presents a series of reflections - excerpts from the inner and outer lives of college teachers - from which emerges a common concern for the interactive and spiritual dimensions of the educational process, and a sense of the light which can and should illuminate it. Informed either by personal commitment to Quakerism, or by individual work within Quaker institutions, the contributors offer perspectives that are important...

•	Vocation of Teaching

•	Method and Theory

On Trying to Teach: The Mind in Correspondence
Gardner, M. Robert
The Analytic Press, Hillsdale, NJ
1994
From the Publisher
In an era in which the teaching enterprise is freighted with tactics, techniques, and methods, M. Robert Gardner guides us back to the spirit of teaching. He writes especially about the dilemmas and challenges of teaching, about how it feels to be trying to teach. A clinical teacher of psychiatry and psychoanalysis for over four decades, Gardner is both enlightening and entertaining in relating his own teacherly struggles, including...

•	Vocation of Teaching

Passion and Pedagogy: Relation, Creation, and Transformation in Teaching
Mirochnik, Elijah and Debora C. Sherman, editors
Peter Lang, New York, NY
2002
From the Publisher
The inaugural title of a series in which faculty members at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts will address critical issues in arts education for university faculty, classroom teachers, and students of education, based on the innovation programs in the arts there. The 25 contributions discuss creating the teacher and changing the world, collaborative learning and improvisation, constructing a space for creativity...

•	Method and Theory

•	Vocation of Teaching

Practical Wisdom on Theological Teaching and Learning
Warford, Malcolm L., editor
Peter Lang, New York, NY
2004
From the Publisher
Contemporary theological education is facing profound changes. Fundamental shifts in both church and society have established a volatile context for theological teaching and learning. Seminaries are struggling with the growing diversity of their students, faculties, and institutional commitments. This book addresses these issues both contextually and historically, engages the nature of theological teaching and learning, and...

•	Theological Education

•	Vocation of Teaching

•	General Best Practices

Radical Presence: Teaching as Contemplative Practice
O'Reilley, Mary Rose
Boynton/Cook Publishers, Portsmouth, NH
1998
From the Publisher
Radical Presence is a book about our lives as well as our work, suggesting that the "secrets" of good teaching are the same as the secrets of good living.

•	Vocation of Teaching

Reflections on a teaching Career in Religion

•	Teaching Religion

•	Vocation of Teaching

Riches for the Poor: The Clemente Course in the Humanities
Shorris, Earl
W.W. Norton & Company, New York, NY
2000
From the Publisher
In this groundbreaking work, Shorris examines the nature of poverty in America today. Why are people poor, and why do they stay poor? Shorris argues that they lack politics, or the ability to participate fully in the public world; knowing only the immediacy and oppression of force, the poor remain trapped and isolated. To test his theory, he created an experimental school teaching art, logic, philosophy, and poetry to poor people....

•	Vocation of Teaching

Seeing Through Teachers' Eyes: Professional Ideals and Classroom Practices
Hammerness, Karen
Teachers College Press, New York, NY
2006
From the Publisher
In this book, Karen Hammerness sheds light on the complex relationship between teachers' ideal and the realities of school life. Through the stories of four teachers, she reveals how teacher educators can help new teachers articulate, develop, and sustain their visions and assist them as they navigate the gap between their visions and their daily work.

•	General Best Practices

•	Vocation of Teaching

Spirituality and the Curriculum
Thatcher, Adrian, editor
Cassell, London and New York
1999
From the Publisher
The contributors to "Spirituality and the Curriculum" explore ways in which spirituality can be diverted from its confinement as an academic subject and be incorporated into education to help children develop in this important area of human endeavour.

•	Vocation of Teaching

•	Religion and Academia

Spirituality, Action, & Pedagogy: Teaching from the Heart
Denton, Diana and Will Ashton, editors
Peter Lang, New York, NY
2004
From the Publisher
Spirituality, Action, & Pedagogy: Teaching from the Heart invites the reader to participate in a personal exploration of what it means to consciously seek the heart of education. The authors in this collection - practitioners in higher education and teaching in such diverse areas as educational foundations, communication, theater, sociology, reading and literacy, and performance studies - respond to this challenge by striking...

•	Vocation of Teaching

Spirituality, Ethics, Religion, and Teaching: A Professor's Journey
Nash, Robert J.
Peter Lang, New York, NY
2002
From the Publisher
This book is a first-person, pedagogical reflection on what the author - an applied philosopher with an appointment in a professional school - has learned about being a teacher and a student, over a thirty-five-year career in a "public ivy" university. This narrative recounts a series of life-changing, intellectual, and emotional insights gleaned over three decades from students, colleagues, scholars, and mentors. The author's...

•	Vocation of Teaching

Spitwad Sutras: Classroom Teaching as Sublime Vocation
Inchausti, Robert
Bergin & Garvey, Westport, CT
1993
From the Publisher
This work goes beyond the basics of classroom management to consider the path of both teacher and student toward authentic intellectual maturity and spiritual growth. It provides a framework for stripping away the external and personal pressures that bleed intellectual content out of classroom teaching so that teachers may, in fact, experience their vocation as "sublime." Written in the novelistic first-person narrative, it...

•	Vocation of Teaching

Teacher: The One Who Made the Difference
Edmundson, Mark
Random House, New York, NY
2003
From the Publisher
"When Frank Lears came to teach at Medford High School in the fall of 1969, he looked easy prey to Mark Edmundson and his school-hating pals. At the front of the class, they saw a small, nervous man wearing a moth-eaten suit two sizes too big, with a large paperclip fastened to the left lapel. Lears, just out of Harvard, struck the class as absurd, the kind of teacher they could torment at will. And for some time, they did just...

•	Vocation of Teaching

Teaching as An Act of Faith
Migliazzo, Arlin C.
Fordham University Press, New York, NY
2002
From the Publisher
Interest in church-related higher education has increased greatly in recent years. Teaching as an Act of Faith is a practical guidebook on strategies to incarnate mission and epitomize theological and theoretical reflection in the classroom. In original essays, distinguished practitioners from fourteen liberal arts disciplines and Roman Catholic, Wesleyan, Anabaptist, Lutheran, and Reformed traditions demonstrate how they have...

•	Religion and Academia

•	Vocation of Teaching

Teaching to Learn, Learning to Teach: Meditations on the Classroom
Dalke, Anne French
Peter Lang, New York, NY
2002
From the Publisher
Dalke brings together a collection of accounts written by herself, students and colleagues. These are incorporated into seven chapters corresponding to the seven stages of Dalke's reflection about teaching and learning in the liberal arts classroom. The text explores the evolution of Dalke's approach to teaching; Dalke's decision to redesign her classes using the model of the Quaker Meeting for Business; difficulties she faced...

•	Vocation of Teaching

•	Religion and Academia

•	18-22 Year Olds

Teaching with Fire: Poetry that Sustains the Courage to Teach
Intrator, Sam and Megan Scribner, editors
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
2003
From the Publisher
Those of us who care about the young and their education must find ways to remember what teaching and learning are really about. We must find ways to keep our hearts alive as we serve our students. Poetry has the power to keep us vital and focused on what really matters in life and in schooling. Teaching with Fire is a wonderful collection of eighty-eight poems from such well-loved poets as Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, Billy...

•	Vocation of Teaching

The Art of Teaching
Parini, Jay
Oxford University Press, New York, NY
2005
From the Publisher
"Becoming an effective teacher can be quite painful and exhausting, taking years of trial and error. In The Art of Teaching, writer and critic Jay Parini looks back over his own decades of trials, errors, and triumphs, in an intimate memoir that brims with humor, encouragement, and hard-won wisdom about the teacher's craft." Here is a godsend for instructors of all levels, offering valuable insight into the many challenges that...

•	General Best Practices

•	Vocation of Teaching

The Art of Theological Reflection
Killen, Patricia O'Connell and John de Beer
Crossroads, New York, NY
1994
From the Publisher
Here is a book for the millions of Christians who want to make a vital connection between their faith and their lives. This practical book provides a way for all of us to experience greater meaning in life and a more tangible sense of God's creative presence.

•	Vocation of Teaching

The Close: A Young Woman's First Year at Seminary
Breyer, Chloe
Basic Books, New York, NY
2000
From the Publisher
An intimate and inspiring chronicle of a young woman entering a vocation that for centuries has been the exclusive dominion of menSet in the context of the Church Year, The Close is an enthralling account of one young woman's spiritual journey. It is both a personal meditation on faith, in the spirit of Kathleen Norris's Cloister Walk, and a fascinating behind-the-scenes story of a graduate student's first year, in the mode...

•	Theological Education

•	Vocation of Teaching

•	Adult Learners

The Courage to Teach: A Guide for Reflection and Renewal
Livsey, Rachel C. in collaboration with Parker J. Palmer
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
1999
From the Publisher
This guide will help teachers, individually and in groups, reflect on their teaching and renew their sense of vocation by exploring the inner landscape of their lives along Palmer's three dimensions--intellectual, emotional, and spiritual. The guide will raise questions, examine ideas and images, and suggest practices that emerge from the many insights in The Courage to Teach.

•	Vocation of Teaching

The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life
Palmer, Parker J.
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
1998
From the Publisher
Teachers choose their vocation for reasons of the heart, because they care deeply about their students and about their subject. But the demands of teaching cause too many educators to lose heart. Is it possible to take heart in teaching once more so that we can continue to do what good teachers always do - give heart to our students? In The Courage to Teach, Parker Palmer takes teachers on an inner journey toward reconnecting...

•	Vocation of Teaching

The Heart of Learning: Spirituality in Education
Glazer, Steven, editor
Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, New York, NY
1999
From the Publisher
This collection draws together the most important teachers and spiritual figures of our time to help students, teachers, parents, and lifelong learners understand more about why we learn and teach. The Heart of Learning shows how learning can be far more than an intellectual process - that it can be a way to connect with the mysteries and wonders both in ourselves and in the world. The book welcomes the spirit back into the...

•	Vocation of Teaching

The Intuitive Practitioner: on the value of not always knowing what one is doing
Atkinson, Terry and Guy Claxton, editors
Open University Press, Philadelphia, PA
2000
From the Publisher
Much of the time, experienced professionals in both education and other fields cannot explain what they are doing, or tell you what they know; and students cannot articulate their learning. Yet professional development and practice are often discussed as if conscious understanding and deliberation are of the essence. The Intuitive Practitioner tackles this apparent paradox head on, and explores the dynamic relationship between...

•	Method and Theory

•	Vocation of Teaching

The Peaceable Classroom
O'Reilley, Mary Rose
Boynton/Cook Publishers, Portsmouth, NH
1993
From the Publisher
The Peaceable Classroom first defines a pedagogy of nonviolence and then analyzes certain contemporary approaches to rhetoric and literary studies in light of nonviolent theory.

•	Vocation of Teaching

The Scope of Our Art: The Vocation of the Teacher - AAR 2000 Annual Meeting Special Topics Forum: Cassette tape (1)

•	Vocation of Teaching

The Scope of Our Art: The Vocation of the Teacher - AAR 2000 Annual Meeting Special Topics Forum: Cassette tape (2)

•	Vocation of Teaching

The Scope of Our Art: The Vocation of the Theological Teacher
Jones, L. Gregory and Stephanie Paulsell, editors
Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, MI
2002
From the Publisher
In The Scope of Our Art a diverse group of theological teachers explores the spiritual dimensions of their vocation as religious educators. Drawing on a rich array of resources, including Scripture, The Rule of St. Benedict, medieval women mystics, the Methodist theologian Georgia Harkness, and Simone Weil, as well as their own teaching experiences, the contributors discuss the vital relationships between academic and spiritual...

•	Theological Education

•	Vocation of Teaching

The Teacher's Calling: A Spirituality for Those Who Teach
Durka, Gloria
Paulist Press, Mahwah, NJ
2002
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Teaching is more, much more, than getting up in front of a class full of students and presenting information to them. It is, affirms distinguished educator, writer and lecturer Gloria Durka, a true vocation, "a calling that makes claims on our souls".

Her book, which is written for teachers of all grade levels, is a journey into the soul of education and the heart of the teacher. In seven chapters, she covers such ideas...

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The Vocation of a Christian Scholar
Hughes, Richard T.
Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, MI
2005
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Richard T. Hughes's highly praised book on the relationship between Christian faith and secular learning originally published as "How Christian Faith Can Sustain the Life of the Mind" is now available in a revised edition that brilliantly incorporates recent interest in the topic of vocation.While the vocational dimensions of the earlier book were implicit, this revised edition makes them explicit. In the first of two completely...

•	Religion and Academia

•	Vocation of Teaching

The Way of the Teacher
Haile, J.M.
Macatea Productions, Central, SC
2005
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The Way of the Teacher, written by educator J. M. Haile, is for the dissatisfied teacher: one who conscientiously performs the job but who feels that students are not benefiting as much as they should; one who wants to continue growing in the profession but who needs guidance and encouragement; one who aspires to master teaching and inspire students. Such teachers can be found at every institution of learning, in every discipline,...

•	Vocation of Teaching

To Know as We are Known: Education as a Spiritual Journey
Palmer, Parker J.
Harper & Row, San Francisco, CA
1993
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This primer on authentic education explores how mind and heart can work together in the learning process. Moving beyond the bankruptcy of our current model of education, Parker Palmer finds the soul of education through a lifelong cultivation of the wisdom each of us possesses and can share to benefit others.

•	Vocation of Teaching

To Teach, To Delight, and To Move: Theological Education in a Post-Christian World
Cunningham, David S., editor
Cascade Books, Eugene, OR
2004
From the Publisher
This book initiates a new conversation about how theological education might be re-envisioned for the twenty-first century church. The prevailing curricular structure in today s seminaries and divinity schools was fashioned in a very different era one that assumed the continued cultural dominance of Christianity and the continued academic dominance of the canons of Enlightenment reason. Neither assumption is viable in today...

•	Theological Education

•	Vocation of Teaching

Wise Teaching: Biblical Wisdom and Educational Ministry
Melchert, Charles F.
Trinity Press, Valley Forge, PA
1998
From the Publisher
This book seeks to be responsible both to biblical scholarship and to pedagogical inquiry. It focuses on wisdom texts in the Bible (Proverbs, Job, Ecclesiastes, Ecclesiasticus, Wisdom of Solomon, and the Synoptic Gospels) and on inferences about teaching and learning that can be drawn from these texts. Acknowledging that we cannot reconstruct the practices of the wise teachers of the biblical tradition with historical methods,...

•	Theological Education

•	Ministerial Formation

•	Vocation of Teaching

•	Religious Education

Wise Women: Reflections of Teachers at Midlife
Freeman, Phyllis R. and Jan Zlotnik Schmidt, editors
Routledge, New York, NY
2000
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Wise Women is a collection of autobiographical essays by important and renowned teachers at mid-life. The essays, which are deeply personal, will focus on how these women negotiate the psychological, physical, and social changes brought on by menopause and how the aging process affects their lives as professionals, feminists, writers, mentors, and instructors in the academy. The book addresses such questions as the following:...

•	Gender

•	Vocation of Teaching

The Living Classroom: Teaching and Collective Consciousness
Christopher M. Bache
State University of New York Press
2008
From the Publisher
Describes the emergence of powerful fields of consciousness that influence students learning and personal transformation.
This pioneering work in teaching and transpersonal psychology explores the dynamics of collective consciousness in the classroom. Combining scientific research with personal accounts collected over thirty years, Christopher M. Bache examines the subtle influences that radiate invisibly around teachers...

•	Vocation of Teaching

•	Method and Theory

•	Religion and Academia

Authenticity in Teaching
Cranton, Patricia, ed.
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco
2006
From the Publisher
Becoming an authentic teacher appears to be a developmental process that relies on experience, maturity, self-exploration, and reflection. It is the purpose of this volume to explore a variety of ways of thinking about authenticity in teaching, from the perspective of both scholars and practitioners.
This volume addresses five overlapping and interrelated aspects of teaching that impact a teacher's authenticity:
...

•	Vocation of Teaching

In Over Our Heads: The Mental Demands of Modern Life
Kegan, Robert
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA
1994
From the Publisher
If contemporary culture were a school, with all the tasks and expectations meted out by modern life as its curriculum, would anyone graduate? In the spirit of a sympathetic teacher, Robert Kegan guides us through this tricky curriculum, assessing the fit between its complex demands and our mental capacities, and showing what happens when we find ourselves, as we so often do, in over our heads. In this dazzling intellectual tour,...

•	Vocation of Teaching

Higher Education Reconceived: A Geography of Change
Sherrie Reynolds and Toni Craven
TCU Press, Forth Worth, TX
2009
From The Publisher
In "Higher Education Reconceived: A Geography of Change", authors Sherrie Reynolds and Toni Craven examine the process of change in higher education as they engage the reader in conversation about how we relate to ourselves and to one another. They draw on modern and post-modern elements of higher education as well as personal narratives to address personal change, emergent change, and changing ideas about learning, curriculum,...

•	Vocation of Teaching

•	The Academy

•	Religion and Academia

Teaching What You Don't Know
From the Publisher

Your graduate work was on bacterial evolution, but now you're lecturing to 200 freshmen on primate social life. You've taught Kant for twenty years, but now you're team-teaching a new course on Ethics and the Internet. The personality theorist retired and wasn't replaced, so now you, the neuroscientist, have to teach the "Sexual Identity" course. Everyone in academia knows it and no one likes to admit it: faculty often...

•	Vocation of Teaching

•	General Best Practices

Inspirational Quotes, Notes, and Anecdotes That Honor Teachers and Teaching
Ramsey, Robert D.
Corwin Press, Thousand Oaks, CA
2007
From the Publisher
The complete uplifting guide for every teacher to enrich each day and a career in teaching!

All teachers need encouragement, affirmation, support, and to be reminded that they are part of a noble profession. Best-selling author Robert D. Ramsey has been an avid collector of inspirational quotes, notes, anecdotes, reflections, testimonials, and tributes for educators, and his new collection provides potentially career-saving...

•	Vocation of Teaching

From Oppression to Grace: Women of Color and Their Dilemmas within the Academy
Berry, Theodorea Regina and Nathalie D. Mizelle, editors
Stylus, Sterling
2006
From the Publisher
This book gives voice to the experiences of women of color - women of African, Native American, Latina, East Indian, Korean and Japanese descent - as students in pursuing terminal degrees and as faculty members navigating the Academy, grappling with the dilemmas encountered by others and themselves as they exist at the intersections of their work and identities.
Women of color are frequently relegated - on account both...

•	Diversity

•	Vocation of Teaching

Gladly Learn, Gladly Teach: Living Out One's Calling in the 21st-Century Academy
Dunaway, John Marson, editor
Mercer University Press, Macon, GA
2005
From the Publisher
These essays come from scholars in a wide variety of fields: not just theology, but law, literature, political science, education, and philosophy. The essayists are teacher-scholars who genuinely seek to live out the sometimes-competing vocations of professor and believer. Though most of them teach in church-related institutions, they not only affirm the need for a clear theological vision on which to base institutional and...

•	Religion and Academia

•	Vocation of Teaching

A Broadening Conversation: Classic Readings in Theological Librarianship
McMahon, Melody Layton and David R. Stewart, eds.
The Scarecrow Press, Inc. Lanham, MYD
2006
From the Publisher
The American Theological Library Association has served libraries, librarians, and academic institutions with distinction for sixty years. A Broadening Conversation offers a means of listening in on the rich and vivid conversation of this community over the course of its history so far.

•	Vocation of Teaching

•	Theological Education

The Spiritual Wisdom of the Gospels for Christian Preachers and Teachers: The Relentless Widow: Year C
Shea, John
Liturgical Press, Collegeville, MN
2006
From the Publisher
Beloved storyteller and theologian John Shea provides a unique commentary that s ideal for preaching, teaching, or simply meditating on the Gospels. His writing is poignant and conversational, making this book a valuable tool for professional ministers, as well as for Christians who reflect on the Gospels for personal spiritual growth. Shea draws readers into the people and situations for Jesus encountered in ways that are evocative...

•	Vocation of Teaching

How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment
Michele Lamont
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA
2009
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Excellence. Originality. Intelligence. Everyone in academia stresses quality. But what exactly is it, and how do professors identify it?
In the academic evaluation system known as peer review, highly respected professors pass judgment, usually confidentially, on the work of others. But only those present in the deliberative chambers know exactly what is said. Michle Lamont observed deliberations for fellowships and...

•	Critical Thinking

•	Vocation of Teaching

•	Faculty Development

•	The Academy

Rethinking Faculty Work
Gappa, Judith M., Ann E. Austin, and Andrea G. Trice
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
2007
From the Publisher
Written for educators, administrators, policy makers, and anyone else concerned with the future of higher education, Rethinking Faculty Work shows how changes in higher education are transforming the careers of faculty and provides a model that makes it possible for all faculty to be in a position to do their best. This important resource offers a vision of academic workplaces that will attract superb faculty committed to fulfilling...

•	Vocation of Teaching

•	Faculty Development

•	The Academy

Leading Lives That Matter: What We Should Do and Who We Should Be
Schwehn, Mark R. and Bass, Dorothy C. editors
William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, MI
2006
From the Publisher
Leading Lives That Matter draws together a wide range of texts---including fiction, autobiography, and philosophy---offering challenge and insight if you're thinking about what to do with your life. Instead of prescribing advice, Schwehn and Bass approach the vocational process as an ongoing conversation. They include in this conversation some of Western tradition's best writings on human life---its meaning, purpose, and significance---ranging...

•	18-22 Year Olds

•	Vocation of Teaching

Teaching and Religious Imagination: An Essay in the Theology of Teaching
Harris, Maria
Harper & Row, San Francisco, CA
1991
From the Publisher
Harris helps teachers discover their own creative resources and aid their students in doing the same.

•	Vocation of Teaching

Life on the Tenure Track: Lessons from the First Year
Lang, James M.
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD
2005
From the Publisher
This lively account provides guidance to college and university faculty as they plot their course to tenure. Written in journal form by a regular contributor to the Chronicle of Higher Education, Life on the Tenure Track recounts many of Jim Lang's own early struggles in the classroom, at the department meeting, and around the halls of academe. Lang uses wit and anecdote to lighten the burden of a journey that is often lonely...

•	Vocation of Teaching

•	Faculty Development

The Advancement of Learning: Building the Teaching Commons
Huber, Mary Taylor and Pat Hutchings
Jossey-Bass, A Wiley Imprint, San Francisco, CA
2005
From the Publisher
A publication of The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, this important resource builds on the work of Carnegie's best-selling books, Scholarship Reconsidered and Scholarship Assessed. The Advancement of Learning explores the premise that the scholarship of teaching and learning holds the key to improving the quality of higher education. The Advancement of Learning answers questions readers are likely to have:...

•	Vocation of Teaching

The Gigantic Book of Teachers' Wisdom
Gruwell,Erin, editor
Skyhorse Publishing, New York, NY
2007
From the Publisher
When we look back with fondness at our school years, one teacher always stands out. This tremendous compendium of wisdom captures that special relationship. With more than 3,000 entries, it includes thoughts on the art of teaching and the acquisition of knowledge from hundreds of professors, scholars, politicians, celebrities, and more. Some of the famous names represented include Socrates, Aristotle, the Buddha, Jesus, Muhammad,...

•	Vocation of Teaching

The Role of Self in Teacher Development
Lipka, Richard P., and Thomas M. Brinthaupt
State University of New York Press, Albany, NY
1999
From the Publisher
The Role of Self in Teacher Development explores some of the major transition points in becoming a teacher and focuses explicitly on how issues of self and identity bear on these different points. The contributors examine not only pre-service teachers, but also the first years of teaching, the characteristics of the master teacher, and the processes of reexamining and affirming one's identity as a teacher. A recurrent theme...

•	Vocation of Teaching

•	Faculty Development

The Active Life: A Spirituality of Work, Creativity, and Caring
Palmer, Parker J.
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
1999
From the Publisher
The Active Life is Parker J. Palmer's deep and graceful exploration of a spirituality for the busy, sometimes frenetic lives many of us lead. Telling evocative stories from a variety of religious traditions, including Taoist, Jewish, and Christian, Palmer shows that the spiritual life does not mean abandoning the world but engaging it more deeply through life-giving action. He celebrates both the problems and potentials of the...

•	Faith, Society, and Church

•	Vocation of Teaching

Taught by God: Teaching and Spiritual Formation
Yust, Karen Marie and E. Byron Anderson
Chalice Press, St. Louis, MO
2006
From the Publisher
The history of the Christian spiritual life suggests that those who truly teach the spiritual life have been themselves "taught by God." The phrase "taught by God" occurs in Christian writings across several centuries. This book draws on the teachers and teaching models that animate Christian history, bringing it into conversation with the issues and concerns of contemporary teachers and learners who seek to follow Christ. The...

•	Vocation of Teaching

The Vocation of the Religious Educator
From the Publisher
Religious Education, the journal of the Religious Education Association: An Association of Professors, Practitioners, and Researchers in Religious Education, offers an interfaith forum for exploring religious identity, formation, and education in faith communities, academic disciplines and institutions, and public life and the global community.

•	Vocation of Teaching

•	Theological Education

Professing to Learn: Creating Tenured Lives and Careers in the American Research University
Anna Neumann
The John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MYD
2009
From The Publisher

Research, teaching, service, and public outreach all are aspects of being a tenured professor. But this list of responsibilities is missing a central component: actual scholarly learning disciplinary knowledge that faculty teach, explore in research, and share with the academic community. How do professors pursue such learning when they must give their attention as well to administrative and other obligations?

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•	Theological Education

•	Vocation of Teaching

•	Theological Education (ATS Journal)

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