Whole-Person Formation

The Wayfinder
Educational Architecture

Seven complementary books. A shared commitment to human dignity, careful interpretation, and attention to the whole person.

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Coherence for the work of education.

Christian formation, educational research, and lived practice belong in conversation. These books offer distinct entrances into that conversation, from the posture of inquiry to the willingness to learn again.

The seven contributions describe educational responsibilities. They are not seven steps to complete or seven labels for a learner. Whole-Person Formation’s six interconnected dimensions attend to the person; the wider architecture attends to the work of education.

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Book 01 · PosturePublished

Faithful Inquiry

A Way of Seeing, Learning, and Becoming

Rooted in Christ, this book explores curiosity, humility, attentiveness, discernment, and wonder as a posture toward truth, Scripture, creation, uncertainty, and other people, joining intellectual honesty with a willingness to remain teachable.

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Book 02 · StructurePublished

Whole-Person Formation

A Theoretical Framework for Human Flourishing in Education

An integrative framework attends to intellectual, spiritual, emotional, relational, vocational, and physical formation, widening educational attention while preserving the learner as one person rather than a set of scores or isolated traits.

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Book 03 · LanguagePublished

Wonder Words

A Thirty-Week Devotional Journey for Whole-Person Formation

Thirty devotional words connect Scripture, prayer, reflection, relationships, and everyday choices, moving through receiving God’s forming grace, practicing the way of Christ, and joining God’s renewing work in community.

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Book 04 · DisciplinePublished

Educational Psychology

Understanding the Whole Learner

Study development, cognition, learning, motivation, emotion, relationships, and assessment through an educational psychology text that connects disciplinary research with responsive teaching while keeping the limits of theory, observation, and scores visible.

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Book 05 · Practice

Embodied Practice

How Formation Becomes Lived, Remembered, and Offered

Explore how relationships, tasks, routines, feedback, responsibility, and contribution make educational commitments tangible, connecting everyday episodes with a longer developmental journey and distinguishing lived practice from the evidence that remembers it.

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Book 06 · Assessment

Evidence Without Reduction

Assessment, Interpretation, and Responsible Response

Explore how purpose, context, uncertainty, learner voice, and consequence shape the gathering and use of educational evidence, so that assessment supports proportionate responses rather than judgments about identity or human worth.

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Book 07 · Reflection

The Humble Return

Reflection, Renewal, and Return to Inquiry

Reflection becomes a shared educational responsibility through educator learning, institutional change, correction, and repair, returning experience and evidence to inquiry rather than treating a decision, program, or framework as a final stopping point.

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Supplemental practitioner companion

The Whole Learner in Practice

Educational Psychology for Experienced Teachers

Written for experienced classroom teachers, this practitioner companion connects recognizable situations with carefully selected research, low-burden practices, summaries, and discussion questions to strengthen the judgment teachers exercise during an active school year.

A companion for practicing educators, especially experienced classroom teachers. It complements the seven core books without becoming an eighth architectural contribution.

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Meaning & BelongingPublished

Becoming Fully Human

A Christian Anthropology from Conception to Resurrection and the Renewal of All Things

Answer who a person is before prescribing how people should be formed. This book offers a Christian anthropology that follows the human story from conception through life, death, resurrection, and the renewal of all things.

For Christian educators, theological readers, and formation leaders.

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Teaching & LearningPublished

Classticity

12 Essential Concepts for Applying Neuroscience in the Classroom

Understand the learning processes beneath visible classroom behavior. This book introduces twelve concepts from neuroscience and educational psychology that help educators examine the conditions of learning.

For Teachers and instructional leaders.

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Foundations of Education

Schools, Society, and the Work of Teaching

Understand the purposes, philosophies, histories, and institutions behind classroom practice. This book helps future educators recognize those ideas and examine how they became part of familiar school life.

For Christian college teacher candidates and instructors.

Survey of the Exceptional Child — front cover
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Survey of the Exceptional Child

Understanding Learners, Law, and Inclusive Practice

Connect learner dignity with competent, inclusive educational practice. This book introduces future educators to exceptionality, inclusive practice, family partnerships, and the educational responsibilities that surround support for children and adolescents.

For Christian college teacher candidates, special educators, and school leaders.

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