Big questions, worthy dreams
Subtitle: mentoring emerging adults in their search for meaning, purpose, and faith
By: Sharon D. Parks
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 2011
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780470903797
Subjects: EDUCATION / Higher
Description: "Building on the foundation she established with her ground-breaking book, The Critical Years, Parks invites us to take up responsibility for providing thoughtful mentorship and mentoring environments during the wilderness years of young adulthood. In this updated edition she addresses recent current events: violence in our culture, smart phones, mixed spirituality/religious identities, social media/networking, the economic crisis, changing racial identity, cultural shifts and other forces shaping the narrative of young adulthood today. She provides concrete ways of employing the theory in different types of mentoring communities, more on the relationship between meaning-making (faith/religion/spirituality) and disciplinary learning and includes new (and more timely) stories and illustrations"--
Notes: Includes index.