Vocational Education Commons^™

Educating Others: A Vocation Promoting Meaning, Purpose And The Universal Apostolic Preferences, Audrey A. Friedman, Myra Rosen-Reynoso, Kierstin M. Giunco, Charles T. Cownie Iii, Cristina J. Hunter Phd

Jesuit Higher Education: A Journal

Teaching as discerned vocation in urban Catholic schools has the potential to provide a far-reaching, integrative space for enacting the Universal Apostolic Preferences. This research explores the reflections of 31 novice teachers, enrolled in the Urban Catholic Teacher Corps (UCTC), a Jesuit university program in the northeast. This program supports the development and formation of novice teachers through graduate education, living in community, full-teaching responsibilities in an urban Catholic school, mentoring, coaching, and professional development. Teachers completed an online interview that elicited responses about what it means to lead a life of meaning and purpose and the factors that contribute …