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Leading With Love: The Confluence Of Spirituality And Leadership In College Students, Eileen Patricia Doherty
Leading With Love: The Confluence Of Spirituality And Leadership In College Students, Eileen Patricia Doherty
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This study explored the relationship between spirituality and leadership in college students, creating a conceptual framework for student spiritual leadership. Based in the prior work of leadership theory, college student leadership development, faith development, spiritual leadership, spirituality in higher education, and the environment of faith-based institutions, this research built upon previous research to create a framework for future study.
Using a case study method that considered a specific context, fourth-year students at a mid-size Catholic institution were interviewed, along with faculty and staff who offered observations of the students. While these students are a small sample of the college student …
The Caller And The Called: How Young Adults Understand Vocation In Their Lives, John A. Dahlstrand
The Caller And The Called: How Young Adults Understand Vocation In Their Lives, John A. Dahlstrand
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While scholarly research offers some insight into the career decision-making process, it says little about how individuals discern their callings and how the vocational discernment process affects career choice. Accordingly, this study generated baseline understandings in both of these areas that proved theoretically and practically fruitful and which have the potential to serve as a launching pad for future research. These new understandings are critical because decisions relating to career choice and vocation are of particular importance to college-aged adults.
This study was informed by a conceptual framework identifying seven key domains that were assumed to potentially shape students' understanding …