Helping college students find purpose: the campus guide to meaning-making

This book provides a theory-to-practice model of meaning-making for the that enables the entire campus community to participate in the process. From the preface: In this day and age, the old academic and administrative silos are imploding. All the campus constituencies, including our students, are looking for creative ways to save ourselves, to save one another, to save the best that knowledge and wisdom have to offer, and to save our institutions and our planet.As Rorty (1999) has said, in the absence of any metaphysical or political certainty that all of us can agree upon in a troubled, strife-filled, postmodern world, the most that we can hope for is to huddle together against the darkness in order to produce some light. In other words, we are all struggling to make meaning of our existence, and sometimes it is wiser for us to do this together, if we are to survive as a human species. Faculty and administrators have unique and special contributions to make in the search for meaning, and when they make the effort to work together, everyone on a college campus benefits. For us, there is simply no alternative. We hope that faculty in their individualdisciplines will take away from our book a set of creative philosophical/psychological rationales, and pedagogical strategies, for teaching about meaninginthe classroom, lecture hall, and seminar room. We hope that administrators will discover inspiring and helpful ways to meet students where they are, anywhere on campus and beyond, in their meaning-making ventures. Most of all, though, we want faculty and student affairs administrators to collaborate actively and directly, when appropriate, both inside and outside the classroom. We are committed to the proposition that both groups have much to teach one another, and, in so doing, they will have that much more to teach students about how to make meaning.

• ISBN: 978-0-470-40814-8
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 352
• Fecha Publicación: 11/02/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés