The Routledge International Companion to Educational Psychology

Dedication
Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction • Andrew J. Holliman
Part I: An introduction to educational psychology
	1 A history of educational psychology • Malcolm W. H. Hughes
	2 The rights of the child • Mary Kellett
	3 Introduction to educational psychology practice • Terri Passenger
	4 A comparative overview of educational psychology across continents • Christopher Boyle and Fraser Lauchlan
Part II: How children learn and develop
	5 Theories of teaching and learning • Janet I. Vousden, Clare Wood and Andrew J. Holliman
	6 Effective teaching practices and classroom management: the role of ecological and inclusive understandings • Ozlem Erten, Robert Savage and Maria Di Stasio
	7 Educational dialogues • Karen Littleton
	8 Learning to read around the world • Juan Zhang and Catherine McBride-Chang
	9 Digital technology as enrichment of young children’s literacy environment • Maria T. de Jong and Marian J. A. J. Verhallen
	10 The development of scientific reasoning • Christine Howe
	11 Motivation to learn • Andrew J. Martin
	12 Children’s relationships and the family • Charlie Lewis, Dorothy Miell and Fleur-Michelle Coiffait
	13 Childhood stress and its impact on learning and academic performance • Meena Hariharan, Sunyana Swain and Usha Chivukula
Part III: Issues concerning the assessment of children
	14 Classroom assessments: informing teaching and supporting learning • Spencer Salend
	15 Diagnostic assessment: one of the effective ways of assessing learning • Sunday Obi and Marty Sapp
	16 Purposes, approaches and tensions in assessment policy and practice • Kathy Hall
	17 Language use and assessment • Nenagh Kemp
	18 Multicultural education: the mismeasured but important phenomenon • Festus E. Obiakor
	19 Intelligence and individual differences • Constantine Ngara and Marion Porath
	20 New frontiers in education neuroscience • Joanna A. Christodoulou, Patricia K. Saxler and Stephanie N. Del Tufo
	21 Labelling in special education: where do the benefits lie? • Christopher Boyle
Part IV: Identifying and meeting the needs of children with learning difficulties
	22 Education and disability: a space where we belong or is history repeating itself? • Nancy Hansen
	23 Educational psychology and the development of inclusive education • Kieron Sheehy
	24 Education of children with sensory needs: reducing barriers to learning for children with visual impairment • Mike McLinden and Graeme Douglas
	25 Speech and language disorders • David Messer
	26 The autism spectrum • Alexandra Fortuna and Patricia Davis
	27 Social, emotional and behavioural difficulties (SEBD): the need to look beyond the problem • Paul Cooper
	28 Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: characteristics, identification and treatment • Robert Reid and Brenton Prosser
	29 Dyslexia • Brian Byrne, Stefan Samuelsson and Richard K. Olson
	30 Practical implications of research into dyspraxia • John Everatt and Brigid C. McNeill
	31 Dyscalculia: research and practice on identification and intervention across languages • John Everatt, Gad Elbeheri and Peter Brooks
	32 Meeting the needs of gifted learners • Marion Porath
Index