1st Edition
The Routledge International Companion to Educational Psychology
1. A history of educational psychology; 2. The rights of the child; 3. Introduction to educational psychology practice; 4. A comparative overview of educational psychology across continents; 5. Theories of teaching and learning; 6. Effective teaching practices and classroom management: the role of ecological and inclusive understandings; 7. Educational dialogues; 8. Learning to read around the world; 9. Digital technology as enrichment of young children’s literacy environment; 10. The development of scientific reasoning; 11. Motivation to learn; 12. Children’s relationships and the family; 13. Childhood stress and its impact on learning and academic performance; 14. Classroom assessments: informing teaching and supporting learning; 15. Diagnostic assessment: one of the effective ways of assessing learning; 16. Purposes, approaches and tensions in assessment policy and practice; 17. Language use and assessment; 18. Multicultural education: the mismeasured but important phenomenon; 19. Intelligence and individual differences; 20. New frontiers in education neuroscience; 21. Labelling in special education: where do the benefits lie?; 22. Education and disability: a space where we belong or is history repeating itself?; 23. Educational psychology and the development of inclusive education; 24. Education of children with sensory needs: reducing barriers to learning for children with visual impairment; 25. Speech and language disorders; 26. The autism spectrum; 27. Social, emotional and behavioural difficulties (SEBD): the need to look beyond the problem; 28. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: characteristics, identification, and treatment; 29. Dyslexia; 30. Practical implications from research into dyspraxia; 31. Dyscalculia: research and practice on identification and intervention across languages; 32. Meeting the needs of gifted learners
Biography
Andrew J. Holliman is a researcher of children’s learning and development, a chartered psychologist, and a senior lecturer in developmental psychology at the University of Coventry.
