Spirituality in higher education autoethnographies /

"This collection of articles explores how a wide range of academics-- diverse in location, rank and discipline-- understand and express how they deal with spirituality in their professional lives and how they integrate spirituality in teaching, research, administration, and advising. The contri...

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Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Chang, Heewon, 1959-, Boyd, Drick
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, Inc., 2011.
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Introduction/Preface Chapter 1 Autoethnography as a Method of Spirituality Research (Heewon Chang) PART 1: Exploring Spirituality in Personhood Chapter 2 Continuing Construction of a Belief System: Developing Spirituality through Educational and Practical Experience (Lee Nabb) Chapter 3 Weaving Activism, Faith and Scholarship (Drick Boyd) Chapter 4 Past-imperfect: Transformation through a Pedagogy of Love (Janice K. Jones) PART 2: Integrating Spirituality in Instruction Chapter 5 Using Scholarly Personal Narrative Writing to Explore Religion and Spirituality in the Lives of Quarterlife Students (Robert Nash) Chapter 6 Crossing Boundaries of Sacredness (Claude F. Jacobs) Chapter 7 Exploring Spirituality Through the Lens of a Learning Community (Al Fuertes) Chapter 8 Letting this Mind be in You: Writing and Teaching Personal Story (Joyce Munro) Chapter 9 Zen Baptist (Erlene Grise-Owens) PART 3: Infusing Spirituality with Work Chapter 10 The Making of a Justice-Oriented Minister Sociologist in Elite Higher Education (John H. Stanfield, II) Chapter 11 Walking the Tightrope: Extending Justice and Mercy in the Assessment and Evaluation of Student Work (Kathy-Ann Hernandez) Chapter 12 Finding "Esprit De Core": Exploring Spirituality in a Faculty & Professional Learning Community (Eileen O'Shea, Roben Torosyan, Tracey Robert , Ingeborg E. Haug, & Betsy A. Bowen) PART 4: Feeling the Soul of Higher Education Chapter 13 Everything That Lives Wants to Fly: Assimilation, Faith, and Self in Higher Education (Sally Galman) Chapter 14 And Yet It Does Move: Epistemological Tension- The Life of a Pious Academic (Howard Walter) Chapter 15 By a Crooked Star: From Zetetic to Advocate (Ruth Anna Abigail) Chapter 16 Explorations on Scholarship and Spirituality: Autoethnography on Person-Organization Fit (Faith Ngunjiri).
  • pt. 1. Spirituality and personhood
  • pt. 2. Spirituality and teaching
  • pt. 3. Spirituality, scholarship, and outreach.