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A Theoretical Framework for Human Flourishing in Education
Give an integrated account of the learner without reducing a person to scores.
Whole-Person Formation offers a theoretical framework for attending to the spiritual, intellectual, emotional, relational, physical, and vocational dimensions of one human life.
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Whole-Person Formation offers a theoretical framework for attending to the spiritual, intellectual, emotional, relational, physical, and vocational dimensions of one human life. Rather than treating these dimensions as separate programs, it invites educators to consider how they belong together in the work of education.
Written for Christian school leaders, teacher educators, and thoughtful practitioners, the book provides a structure for examining educational purpose, learner development, and the conditions that support human flourishing. Its value is not a new score for ranking people. It is a more coherent way to ask what education is cultivating and what it may be overlooking.
For readers seeking the conceptual foundation beneath whole-person educational practice, this volume develops Structure within the seven-book Wayfinder Educational Architecture. It is distinct from a classroom activity collection or a diagnostic instrument.
Six interconnected dimensions of human life
Learning environments and developmental conditions
Identity, relationships, well-being, and purpose
An integrative framework that resists reducing the learner
Christian education leaders, teacher educators, and researchers.
Book 02 in the Wayfinder Educational Architecture. This volume contributes Structure 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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