Research in educational psychology has had a massive impact in terms of enhancing understanding and challenging thinking about teachers and learners. Educational Psychology: Concepts, Research and Challenges brings together the latest research across many areas of educational psychology, introducing and reporting on the most effective methodologies for studying teachers and learners and providing overviews of current debates within the field.

This advanced level textbook provides theoretical overviews and research findings from across the field including:-

• Teaching and Learning
• Research methods
• Motivation and instruction
• Curriculum – reading, writing, maths
• Cognition
• SEN and behaviour management
• Sociocultural perspectives
• Assessment and evaluation

Learning concerns not just cognition but also student motivation and so this textbook provides understandings about not just theories of learning and instruction, but also on the motivatation of students and the provision of stimulating socioemotional classroom climates.

Educational psychology has historically had a focus on students with particular learning needs. This book provides a discussion about the gradual movement toward inclusion and the possibility of developing a more cohesive and potentially more effective education system for all students. It also provides recent research into effective behaviour management and presents specific and valuable techniques employed in applied behaviour analysis The final chapters demonstrates how the home and society in general can contribute to constraining or enhancing student learning.

This book is a must-read for researchers, undergraduate and graduate students who recognize the substantial contribution of educational psychology to increasing our understanding of students and their learning, teachers and their teaching.