Vocational Exploration through Service: The Effect of Service-Learning on Student Understanding of God's Calling
COLLEGE IS A TIME of exploration for students. College students who are Christian may also engage in exploration of God's call on their lives, a discernment of their vocation. One pedagogical technique that can help us help students explore vocation is service-learning. To better understand the...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Paternoster Periodicals
[2011]
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Journal of education & Christian belief
Year: 2011, Volume: 15, Issue: 1, Pages: 65-74 |
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| Summary: | COLLEGE IS A TIME of exploration for students. College students who are Christian may also engage in exploration of God's call on their lives, a discernment of their vocation. One pedagogical technique that can help us help students explore vocation is service-learning. To better understand their vocation, students need to understand themselves andfit that with what the world needs (Buechner, 1992). Research on service-learning suggests that both identity and knowledge of the world are expanded through service-learning experiences. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of education & Christian belief
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/205699711101500107 |