The Quest for Purpose

The Quest for PurposeDemonstrates 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'

Elizabeth Bishop

learned behaviour

He believed a degree or certification could provide access and elevate one’s social and economic status

which has long hoped to send him to prison

explores how mapmakers sought to document a new geography of the Near East that reconciled classical ideas and theories with the information collected and brought back by travellers and voyagers

and their impacts on mineral development and policy stem from cultural differences in land governance

Vibes as value explores the relationship between subjectivity

Whether mystics' arguments are rational is investigated along with the relation of moral and non-moral values and the role of beliefs and values in enlightened mystics' ways of life

Based on decades of experience in addressing energy-siting conflicts

An examination of the life of Richard Seager is important for two reasons

He offers a contemporary take on timeless conflicts

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