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How Formation Becomes Lived, Remembered, and Offered
Connect educational episodes, learner agency, and longitudinal reflection.
Embodied Practice explores how Christian educational commitments take shape in ordinary actions, relationships, routines, and responses.
Read the full descriptionWhat does a commitment to whole-person formation become in the next classroom encounter?
Embodied Practice explores how Christian educational commitments take shape in ordinary actions, relationships, routines, and responses. It asks educators to attend closely to the learner and the situation before reaching for an explanation or a technique.
The book connects educational episodes with patterns of participation over time. It considers learner agency, responsive action, the traces that practice leaves, student-owned longitudinal portfolios, and the relationship between assessment, reflection, and calling. Formation is not treated as something an educator can manufacture or possess.
For Christian teachers and school leaders who need to connect a coherent vision with lived educational work, these pages offer a way to notice, act, remember, and reconsider. Book 5 of the seven-book Wayfinder Educational Architecture develops Practice while remaining open to what learners, evidence, and experience ask educators to learn next.
Relationships, tasks, routines, and feedback
Responsibility and contribution
Everyday episodes and developmental continuity
Lived practice, selected artifacts, and portfolio evidence
Christian educators moving from formation theory into daily practice.
Book 05 in the Wayfinder Educational Architecture. This volume contributes Practice 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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