The Quest for Purpose The Collegiate Search for a Meaningful Life 1st edition by Perry Glanzer, Jonathan P. Hill, Byron R. Johnson 1438466866 9781438466866

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Author: Perry L. Glanzer,  Jonathan P. Hill, Byron R. Johnson

Demonstrates how students and educators can resist narrow, utilitarian views of higher education’s purpose. While the search for meaning and purpose appears to be a constant throughout human history, there are characteristics about our current time period that make this search different from any other previous time, particularly for college students. In this book, Perry L. Glanzer, Jonathan P. Hill, and Byron R. Johnson explore college students’ search for meaning and purpose and the role that higher education plays. To shed empirical light on this complex issue, the authors draw on in-depth interviews with four hundred college students from different types of institutions across the United States. They also analyze three sets of national survey data: the National Study of Youth and Religion, College Students Beliefs and Values, and their own Gallup-conducted survey of 2,500 college students. Their research identifies important social, educational, and cultural influences that shape students’ quests and the answers they find. Arguing against a utilitarian view of education, Glanzer, Hill, and Johnson conclude that colleges and universities can and should cultivate and aid students in their journeys, and they offer suggestions for doing so.

The Quest for Purpose: The Collegiate Search for a Meaningful Life 1st Table of contents:

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
Why Scientists Gave Up on Life’s Meaning
Why 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
Discussing Purpose with Friends
Conclusion
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
Chapter 4 Developing Purpose in the Contemporary University: Four Stories
First 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
Type 1: Self-Achievers
Type 2: Relationalists
Type 3: Transcendents
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
The Purpose Ingredients of College Students
Self-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
2. Exposure to Diverse Cultures and Perspectives
3. Vocational Transformation
Reasons for Not Encountering Meaning and Purpose in the Classroom
Tracking Faculty Influence on Meaning and Purpose Using National Survey Data
How Students View Faculty: Digging Deeper
Making Sense of It All
Chapter 9 Looking for Purpose Outside of Class
The Importance of the Co-Curricular
Organizational Influences
Individual Relational Influences
Tracking the Influence of the Co-Curricular in National Survey Data
Conclusion
Part IV The Heart, Hope, and Soul of Purpose
Chapter 10 Purpose with Soul: The Religious
The Difference that Religion Makes
The Role of Substantive Religious Beliefs
Religion, Purpose, and Theism
Finding God’s Plan and Direction
Supplies and Motivates Virtues or Resists Vices
Provides Identity, a Foundation, and a Story
The Contribution of Religious Community and Institution
The Interaction between Religion, Purpose Seeking, and College
Conclusion
Chapter 11 Finding Purpose in a Universe without One: The Nontheists
Becoming a Nontheist and the Role of Higher Education
The Freedom of the Nonreligious
Creating Their Own Story
The Burden of No Religious Belief
Finding Secular Substitutes for Religious Scripts
Conclusion
Chapter 12 How Does the Story End? Purpose, the Good Life, and the Future
Purpose and Future Life Goals
The Balanced
The Focused
The Good Life and the Life to Come
Conclusion
Conclusion
Dealing with the Difficulties of Diversity in Purpose Education
Including All Students: Meaning and Purpose as an Inclusive Approach to Big Questions
Including All Universities? The Diversity of Universities
Including All Areas of the University
Students’ Diverse Experiences with Meaning and Purpose Questing and Finding
Curricular and Co-curricular Initiatives—Cultivating Diverse Conversations
A Final Note of Humility
Appendix A: Methods
The Major Qualitative Component: 110 Interviews at Ten Institutions
Gallup® Survey: National Quantitative Survey with 2,503 Students
Gallup® Qualitative Interviews
The National Study of Youth and Religion (NSYR)
College Students’ Beliefs and Values Survey

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