To Look Burnout in the Eye: Addressing Vocational Awe in Stories From Helping Professions

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Author(s): George Boggs (Young Harris College, USA)and Matthew T. Standridge (Florida State University, USA)
Copyright: 2022
Pages: 9
Source title: Teacher Reflections on Transitioning From K-12 to Higher Education Classrooms
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Amy D. Broemmel (The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA)and Nora Vines (The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-3460-4.ch001

Keywords: Business & Management / Information Science Reference / Professional Development / Teacher Education

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Vocational awe is the “set of ideas, values, and assumptions” accompanying “sacred calling” to certain service professions. This idea was first put forth by Fobazi Ettarh in relation to librarianship where it is proposed as a narrative construct that justifies abusive and dysfunctional systems in library science. In this chapter, the authors discuss the ways in which vocational awe is endemic in the helping professions and how it may function in relation to burnout. Using the authors' narratives of burnout as a framework for discussing vocational awe, this chapter focuses on similarities between teaching and family medicine.

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