{"product_id":"liberal-learning-as-a-quest-for-purpose-9780190499242","title":"Liberal Learning as a Quest for Purpose","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn a remarkable experiment lasting over a decade  a group of 88 independent campuses  ranging from comprehensive universities to intimate colleges  have demonstrated the value of an emerging educational agenda focused on meaning and purpose. These programs have shown that college can provide emerging adults with an understanding of themselves within todays insecure and highly competitive world that enhances their ability to develop the \"grit\" needed to create meaningful lives. By focusing on the exploration of vocation and its theological foundations  the programs have produced remarkable outcomes in enhanced student engagement in the learning process and more effective entry into adult life.  Discernment of vocation provides for many students a synthetic and compelling focus for intellectual and practical exploration. Sustained by articulate reflection and grounded in communities of learning that include faculty as well as students  undergraduate life takes on new significance and urgency. Liberal Learning as a Quest for Purpose analyzes a series of successful efforts to reconfigure undergraduate education as a journey toward life purpose. Examining the experiences of students and faculty  William M. Sullivan reveals the concrete importance of this educational agenda for individual lives and particular campuses. By connecting the several dimensions of undergraduate experience through reflection on purpose  Sullivan demonstrates how these programs expanded the bandwidth of academic learning in energizing and exploratory ways. Within the larger  troubled environment of contemporary higher education  these pioneering efforts hold promise for a significant rethinking of the undergraduate experience to better serve students and society.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45648122740789,"sku":"ByrdShop_0190499249","price":21.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780190499242.jpg?v=1781709984","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/liberal-learning-as-a-quest-for-purpose-9780190499242","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}