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Schools, Society, and the Work of Teaching
Understand the purposes, philosophies, histories, and institutions behind classroom practice.
Foundations of Education helps future educators recognize those ideas and examine how they became part of familiar school life.
Read the full descriptionEvery classroom carries ideas about knowledge, authority, human worth, and the purpose of education.
Foundations of Education helps future educators recognize those ideas and examine how they became part of familiar school life. It connects educational purpose and philosophy with the history of schooling, the institutions surrounding schools, and the responsibilities of the teaching profession.
Across five parts, the book considers major philosophical traditions, historical developments, governance, culture, curriculum, technology, ethics, and professional identity. Research, historical scholarship, and Christian reflection contribute distinct perspectives rather than collapsing into a single explanation.
Written for teacher preparation, the text invites readers to distinguish observation from interpretation and to enter educational conversations with informed judgment. Its central task is not memorizing the vocabulary of the field alone. It is learning to see what schools teach intentionally—and what their ordinary structures and practices teach without saying it aloud.
Educational purpose, profession, vocation, and classroom culture
Philosophical traditions and the history of schooling
Law, funding, culture, curriculum, technology, and public responsibility
Professional ethics and Questions for Observation and Reflection
Description, interpretation, and evaluation as distinct disciplines
Christian college teacher candidates and instructors.
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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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