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" Characteristics of Christian College Faculty Who Prioritize Students’ Development of Vocational Calling "
Vance, Reid
Longman, Karen A
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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1113713
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TLpq2384570868
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Longman, Karen A
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Vance, Reid
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Characteristics of Christian College Faculty Who Prioritize Students’ Development of Vocational Calling\ Vance, ReidLongman, Karen A
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Azusa Pacific University
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2020
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2020
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Ph.D./HE
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253
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Interviews were conducted with 15 faculty members across 3 Christian U.S. university campuses in seeking to identify the attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors of these individuals who had been identified by institutional leaders in the area of calling and vocation as prioritizing the development of a sense of vocational calling in their students’ lives. This qualitative study, which utilized a constructivist grounded theory approach, led to the identification of 4 personal experiences of participants and 4 types of interactions with students as major themes of the research findings. Specifically, the 4 experiences that emerged during the analysis of interview data were a recognition of God’s activity in calling; an appreciation of the influence of others on their vocational choice; an understanding of calling as a process; and the perception of pressure felt by students to consider their vocational calling. Participants also reported engaging in certain types of interactions with students. In specific, they displayed an attitude of helpfulness in matters large and small, integrated their personal faith with their teaching, shared their personal stories of faith and vocational calling with their students, and promoted experiential education to their students. Each of the themes was examined considering human development theory and higher education research. Descriptions of the major terms calling, vocation, and vocational calling were also constructed based on participants’ responses. Implications for practice and recommendations for future research are presented. This study contributes to the literature related to the role of calling and vocation in the lives of college students and faculty, offers nuanced descriptions of the key terms of the study, and proposes a theory and model describing the characteristics of Christian college faculty who prioritize the development of a sense of vocational calling in their students’ lives.
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Calling
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Christian college faculty
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Christian higher education
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Student-faculty interaction
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Vocation
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Vocational calling
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