...David Schmid This essay takes the contrarian point of view that graduate study in the humanities should be thought of as an avocation rather than as a vocation. While we have a responsibility to professionalize our graduate students, it is also incumbent on us to continue to redefine what we mean...

...Kristopher M. Lotier Rather than ignoring or criticizing students' vocational concerns, critical pedagogy can work on, in, and through them, thereby gaining persuasive credibility and simultaneously extending Paulo Freire's educational project. Following Freire's command to “rediscover power...

... were a model of the energetic engagement with ideas that characterized his life in and out of the classroom and that set the example for my own future practice. In a speech reprinted in The Vocation of a Teacher, Booth (1988b: 215 – 16) urged new teachers not to overprepare: “Above all, leave...

... at Rockefeller Chapel to be hooded and welcomed to the community of schol- ars. I had had a good undergraduate education; it never occurred to me that I needed to be transformed further, to some level of worthiness for the vocation of teacher that I had chosen. For some reason, Booth chose...

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... and the most useful; but teachers are entirely too apt to congratulate each other on the grandeur of their opportunities and the greatness of their sacrifices. (260) 132 Pedagogy Donahue Pedagogy Lost and Regained 133 Or William Harold Payne s musings on vocation: The vocation of teaching will not become...

... and study skills programs). English is still the fifth most popular area in terms of university applications, despite massive pressures favoring more apparently vocational subjects. Like all subjects, English has increas- ingly been required to explain itself to potential students and employers...

... those words. What a distance to chart between the Olympian voice of 1966 and that of 1982. In The Vocation of a Teacher, Booth says that “the only one of the new voices that I might claim to have done real justice to, in my own thinking, is that of the feminists” (1988b: 79). Booth places...

... displacement by more vocationally oriented forms of education. If the liberal arts once constituted the core of the university, embodying its capacious spirit and fulfilling its central mission, they now find themselves marginalized by professional schools of law, medicine, and business, which enjoy the spoils...

....” Kenyon Review , n.s., 2 : 4 -27. ———. 1988 . The Vocation of a Teacher . Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Brinton, Alan. 1986 . “Ethotic Argument.” History of Philosophy Quarterly 3 : 245 -58. Chappel, Deborah K. 1992 . “The Stories We Tell:Acknowledging Emotion in the Classroom...

... . Berkeley: University of California Press. ____. 1988b . The Vocation of a Teacher: Rhetorical Occasions, 1967-1988 . Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Booth, Wayne C., and Marshall Gregory. 1991 . The Harper and Row Rhetoric: Writing as Thinking, Thinking as Writing . 2nd ed. New York...

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... and beyond — by 1970s and 1980s critical theory; third, a perceived displace- ment (this time, vocational as well as educational) of literary studies by writ- ing studies (my own observation, this); and fourth (but not the last), the perception that the humanities, writ large, have been fully displaced...

... 519 Schmid, David | A Vocation/Avocation 169 Sohan, Vanessa Kraemer | see Arnold, Lisa Stanback, Emily B. | The Borderlands of Articulation 421 Strouse, A. W. | Getting Medieval on Graduate Education: Queering Academic Professionalism 119 Sweetman, Chuck | see Khost, Peter H...

... who did not get the message the first time that education goes beyond the strictly vocational. At the same time, we need to decide how best to influence the students we have now with that same message. It is going to take all of us — we look forward to hearing your thoughts. Works Cited...

... literature, and teach- ing itself. For ten years he served as provost, and he has now returned to his vocation full time. This brief essay is a salvo to signal the publication of his own drama anthology. Scott Ellis is assistant professor of English at Southern Connecticut State University, where...

...-star/ . Robbins Bruce . 1993 . Secular Vocations: Intellectuals, Professionalism, Culture . New York : Verso . Showalter Elaine . 1999 . “ Presidential Address 1998: Regeneration .” PMLA 114.3 : 318 – 28 . Vick Julie Miller Furlong Jennifer S. . 2010...

... as intellectual or vocational. He quotes from an 1850 diary kept by a student at a small Methodist college in Virginia. After attending a sermon by the college president, the student wrote, “Oh that the Lord would show me how to think and how to choose” (15). While such a request may seem surprising...

... their vocation” (Bousquet 1998). In the same year he told the Chronicle of Higher Education, “Graduate stu- dents don’t need the MLA’s help in finding non-­teaching work, says Marc Bousquet, an assistant professor of English at the University of Louisville who was president of the caucus in 1997. Graduate...

... to God and his poetic vocation. Her death is traumatic, but not definitive. Thanks to a vision of his deceased beloved in glory that concludes the work, he realizes that, while Beatrice may be absent from this world, she is by no means gone from him. His retrieval of her will ultimately chart his...