Psychology in Education : : Critical Theory~Practice / / edited by Tim Corcoran.

Psychology’s contribution to education has produced a persuasive and burgeoning literature willing to measure (e.g. intelligence quotients), categorise (e.g. learning and/or behavioural diffi culties) and pathologise (e.g. psychiatric disorders) students across learning contexts. Practices like thes...

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Superior document:Innovations and Controversies: Interrogating Educational Change
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Place / Publishing House:Rotterdam : : SensePublishers :, Imprint: SensePublishers,, 2014.
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:1st ed. 2014.
Language:English
Series:Innovations and Controversies: Interrogating Educational Change
Physical Description:1 online resource (215 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / Tim Corcoran
  • The Potential of Critical Educational Psychology Beyond its Meritocratic Past / Lise Bird Claiborne
  • Education as Transformation / Isaac Prilleltensky
  • Heterotopics / Tim Corcoran
  • Neo-Foucaultian Approaches to Critical Inquiry in the Psychology of Education / Jeff Sugarman
  • School Sucks! Deconstructing Taylorist Obsessions / Greg S. Goodman
  • ‘What’s the Score’ with School Psychology / Christopher Boyle
  • Challenges Educational Psychologists Face Working with Vulnerable Children in Africa / Jace Pillay
  • Towards a Critical Relational Educational (School) Psychology / Tom Billington
  • Solidarity, not Adjustment / Athanasios Marvakis and Ioanna Petritsi
  • The Entanglement of Thinking and Learning Skills in Neoliberal Discourse / Stephen Vassallo
  • Psychologism, Individualism and the Limiting of the Social Context in Educational Psychology / Jack Martin
  • Transfromative Activist Stance for Education / Anna Stetsenko
  • Index / Tim Corcoran.