Includes bibliographical references and index.

Psychology and education : unquestionable goods / Ansgar Allen -- Ontological constructionism / Tim Corcoran -- What use is a story? Narrative, in practice / Penny Fogg -- Post-conventionalism : towards a productive critical educational psychology / Dan Goodley -- Psychoanalysis / Antony Williams -- Critical educational psychology and disability studies : theoretical, practical and empirical allies / Dan Goodley and Tom Billington -- Thinking critically about professional ethics / Pat Bennett -- The ethical demand in an impossible profession / Niall Devlin -- EP becoming Phronimos : the virtue of Phronêsis in educational psychology / Daniela Mercieca and Duncan P. Mercieca -- Traversing the expert non-expert binary : the fluid and contested nature of expertise / Catherine Beal -- Joining the Q : what Q methodology offers to a critical educational psychology / Martin Hughes -- Are we all psychologists now? / Antony Wiliams -- Epidemic or psychiatrisation? Children's mental health in a global context / China Mills -- The teacher's role in supporting student mental health and well-being / Helen Monkman -- Towards restorative justice / Victoria Harold -- Faith and educational psychology : empowering Islamic perspectives of Muslim parents / Samana Saxton -- Gender, non-normativity and young women who have been excluded / Dawn Bradley -- A mindful educational psychology practice / Sahaja Davis -- Some reflections on educational psychology practice / Majid Khoshkhoo -- Finding attunement and promoting positive attachment / Kathryn Pomerantz -- Social theatre for social change : the relevance of performance art in educational psychology / Nick Hammond -- 'Being' dyslexic in higher education : reflections on discourse and identity / Harriet Cameron -- A future? Why educational psychologists should engage with a critical neuroscience / Tom Billington.

The first textbook of its kind, Critical Educational Psychology is a forward-thinking approach to educational psychology that uses critical perspectives to challenge current ways of thinking and improve practice. Written by practitioners engaged in theory, this text uses a broad range of theoretical resources from outside mainstream psychology to examine issues at the forefront of educational psychology. The chapters discuss the role of education, the relationship between teaching and learning, the impact of gender, faith and ethics in educational settings, the construction of rich learning environments, and notions of normalcy, difference, and disability. Contributors employ phenomenology, poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, discursive psychology, social constructionism, narrative psychology, disability studies theory, among other theoretical resources. This serves as a foundational text for trainees in educational and school psychology as well as an essential resource for those practicing and researching in those fields and related ones across psychology and education. Students will benefit from pedagogical features, such as discussion points, mini exercises, essay questions, key terminology, theoretical starting points, and further readings. By calling into question and re-conceptualizing traditional models, this text illuminates an exciting new frontier in educational psychology. -- Provided by publisher.