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Big Questions, Worthy Dreams: Mentoring Emerging Adults in Their Search for Meaning, Purpose, and Faith

Big Questions, Worthy Dreams: Mentoring Emerging Adults in Their Search for Meaning, Purpose, and Faith

Mentoring Emerging Adults

Sharon Daloz Parks has written Big Questions, Worthy Dreams to inform and inspire renewed commitment by educators, church leaders, and others to consider the institutional and cultural patterns that affect emerging adults. It serves to bridge the divide between generations and to encourage more adequate recognition of what is at stake in the response of all who interact with emerging young adult lives.

Our economic and political life has become more brittle, volatile, and global, which both enlarges and constrains young adult aspirations. Today's emerging adults are both more connected and more distracted. And religion and faith have become both problematized and polarized. Parks defines faith as meaning-making in its most comprehensive dimensions, whether expressed in secular or religious terms. Over time, our meaning-making orients our sense of purpose, moral stance, and competence.

The book describes the potential vulnerability of emerging adults and shows how mentors and mentoring environments can provide access to big-enough questions and inspire dreams worthy of engaging with our challenging and complex world. Parks addresses important issues of the day, including violence in our culture, social media and networking, economic challenges, changing racial identity, cultural shifts, and other forces shaping the narrative of emerging adulthood today.

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  • Publisher Fortress Press
  • Format Paperback
  • ISBN 9781506454870
  • eBook ISBN 9781506454887
  • Age/Grade Range Adult
  • Dimensions 6 x 9
  • Pages 288
  • Publication Date March 5, 2019

Table of Contents

Preface
 1   Emerging Adulthood in a Changing World: Potential and Vulnerability
 2   The Deep Motion of Life: Composing, Meaning, Purpose, and Faith
 3   Becoming at Home in the Universe: A Developmental Process
 4   It Matters How We Think
 5   It all Depends . . .
 6   . . . On Belonging
 7   Imagination: The Core of Learning and the Heart of Leadership
 8   The Gifts of Mentorship and a Mentoring Environment
 9   Higher Education as Mentor
10  Culture as Mentor
Coda:  Mentoring Communities
             Professional Education and the Professions
             The Workplace
             Travel
             Families
             Religious Faith Communities
             Media
             Social Movements
Notes
The author
Name Index
Subject Index
 
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