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Attention, Formation, and the Future of Education
Recover attention, wonder, and meaning alongside measurable achievement.
Resonance explores the relationship between educational performance and the deeper work of attention, meaning, wonder, and becoming.
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Resonance explores the relationship between educational performance and the deeper work of attention, meaning, wonder, and becoming. It asks how learners encounter the world and what their education is teaching them to love.
Drawing on philosophy, formation theory, and lived educational experience, the book considers poetic knowledge: knowing through presence, participation, and awe. It invites Christian educators to make room for dimensions of learning that cannot be fully captured by a score without dismissing the value of careful evidence.
For teachers and leaders seeking depth beneath the pressure for continual innovation, these pages offer a different starting point. Attend before you measure. Consider the meaning of an encounter as well as its visible result. Ask how education might cultivate wisdom and a fuller participation in life, not achievement alone.
Attention, meaning, wonder, and connection
Poetic knowledge
Presence, participation, and awe
Formation, performance, and educational measurement
Christian educators and leaders seeking depth in learning.
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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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