The Experience of Calling: Educational Aspects and Cross-Cultural Comparisons

Abstract

The presented study of the phenomenon of calling in educational aspects is based on the results of the research accomplished in Ukraine in 2016. Calling experience of secondary school pupils and university students as well as of school teachers was examined in the surveys and in-depth interviews. Calling as a phenomenon appears to have the following structure: Desire — Talent — Realization — Social or Spiritual Benefit. The aim of transpersonal goodness is the core of the phenomenon of calling and gives the integrity of its structure. The presented research in Ukraine mainly supports the results of the American research of calling for teaching performed at Liberty University, USA, in 2008. However, some cultural differences were revealed and analyzed.

Keywords

• phenomenon of calling
• lived experience
• self-actualization
• career choice
• responsibility
• social and spiritual benefit
• goodness
• morality
• ethics