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Understanding the Whole Learner
Study learning and development rigorously while keeping Christian convictions explicit.
Educational Psychology: Understanding the Whole Learner examines development, learning, motivation, and responsive teaching through disciplinary research and a Christian understanding of human dignity.
Read the full descriptionUnderstand the science. Interpret the learner. Respond with greater care.
Educational Psychology: Understanding the Whole Learner examines development, learning, motivation, and responsive teaching through disciplinary research and a Christian understanding of human dignity. It is written for readers who need more than a collection of classroom tips.
The book addresses research literacy, development in context, behavior and modeling, attention and memory, cognitive load, transfer, metacognition, motivation, self-efficacy, and emotional regulation. Fictional composite learner cases support careful interpretation without exposing real students. Christian theological commitments are identified as such rather than presented as substitutes for psychological evidence.
This is a course-level foundation for understanding learners and making responsible educational judgments. Whole-Person Formation supplies an integrative structure, not a diagnostic scale or a replacement for the discipline. As Book 4 of the seven-book Wayfinder Educational Architecture, this volume develops Discipline; experienced teachers seeking a practice-focused companion can distinguish it from The Whole Learner in Practice.
Development, cognition, and learning
Motivation, emotion, and relationships
Assessment and responsive teaching
Research, professional judgment, and interpretive limits
Christian college teacher-education programs and serious professional learners.
Book 04 in the Wayfinder Educational Architecture. This volume contributes Discipline to a connected account of educational responsibility. The seven contributions work together; they are not a seven-step procedure or seven labels for a learner.
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Dr. R. C. Titus is an author, researcher, and educator whose work explores whole-person formation, educational psychology, emotional intelligence, and the ways learning shapes who people are becoming. As Director of the SNU Lab School and Associate Professor of Educational Psychology at Southern Nazarene University, he brings together research, educational practice, and Christian formation to help educators and leaders cultivate environments where people can grow in wisdom, character, belonging, and purpose.
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