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1 online resource |
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List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction Searching for Meaning and Purpose in College: A Dying Quest?; Searching and Finding Meaning and Purpose: The New Social Science; Exploring the Complex Realities; Our Background, Assumptions, Findings, and Argument; The Map and Destination of the Book; Part I: The Context of the Quest; Chapter 1 Are Colleges Giving Up on Life's Meaning and Purpose? The Historical and Cultural Context; To What Extent Was Education about Purpose a Part of Early American Colleges?; The Loss of Purpose and Meaning |
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Why Scientists Gave Up on Life's MeaningWhy the Humanities Did Not Save Meaning and Purpose; The Contemporary Challenges of Growth, Pluralism, and Diversity; Conclusion; Chapter 2 The Adolescent Journey: The Precollege Path to Finding Meaning and Purpose; The Adolescent Journey toward Purpose; The Diverse Influence of Parents; 1. The Supposedly Laissez-Faire Parents; 2. Encouragement and Effort Parents; 3. Make a Living Parents; 4. Modeling the Good Life Parents; 5. The Religiously Inspired Parents; The Absence of Helicopter Parents; Discussing Purpose outside the Family: Older Adults |
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Discussing Purpose with FriendsConclusion; Chapter 3 Mapping the Presence of Purpose: How Identity, Social Context, and Education Matter; The National Study of Youth and Religion (NSYR) Survey; Demographic Factors; Family Structure and Relationship with Parents during Adolescence; Religion during Adolescence; Education, Employment, Finances, and Living Status during Emerging Adulthood; Deviant Behavior, Prosocial Behavior, and Materialism during Emerging Adulthood; Making Sense of the Findings; Summing Up; Part II: Figuring Out College Students' Quest |
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Chapter 4 Developing Purpose in the Contemporary University: Four StoriesFirst Year-Evetta; Second Year-Jacob; Third Year-Troy; Fourth Year-Brooke; The Language, Formative Context, and Shaping of Purpose; Chapter 5 Mapping What Makes Life Meaningful; Humanity's Search for Meaning; Differentiating Different Kinds of Meaning and Meaning Cultures; The Self-Achievers; The Relationalists; The Transcendents; Some Differences; The Limited Helpfulness of Meaning Talk?; Making Sense of Meaning Talk; Conclusion; Chapter 6 The Diverse Purposes of College Students; Differentiating Meaning and Purpose |
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The Purpose Ingredients of College StudentsSelf-Achievers; Relationalists; Transcendents; Understanding College Students' Life Purpose: A National Survey; Should Cultivating Beyond-the-Self Purposes Be a Developmental Goal?; Chapter 7 Is Purposelessness a Problem?; The Problem of Purposelessness?; The Nature of Purposelessness; Career Questers; General Questers; Conclusion; Part III: Questing in the University; Chapter 8 Encountering Purpose in the Classroom; Expectations; Meaning and Purpose in Their Course Work; 1. A Liberal Arts Education in Meaning and Purpose |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher |
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College students -- Conduct of life.
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College students -- Religious life -- United States
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College students -- United States -- Interviews
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Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Religious aspects.
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Education, Higher -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Christian universities and colleges -- United States
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Christian education -- United States
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Students -- Conduct of life.
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EDUCATION -- Higher.
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Students -- Conduct of life
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Christian education
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Christian universities and colleges
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College students -- Conduct of life
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College students -- Religious life
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Education, Higher -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Religious aspects
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Johnson, Byron R., author
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Hill, Johnathan P., 1980- author.
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| LC no. |
2017018250 |
| ISBN |
9781438466866 |
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1438466862 |
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