Psychologie de l'éducation en Grande-Bretagne

British Educational Psychology: The First Hundred Years

Edited by Christopher Arnold & Julia Hardy
ISBN 978-1-85433-720-7
Paperback 166pp.

In 1913 the first applied psychologist took up his post with the London County Council. His job was to assess children for special educational programmes and develop tools to identify children who may need alternative kinds of education. With this post, the profession of educational psychology was born. The numbers of educational psychologists have steadily grown over the subsequent hundred years and the practices, roles and functions that they adopt have similarly developed.

This book outlines the development of the profession in the United Kingdom during its first century of existence. It describes a number of different themes that have emerged over time and documents key points in the profession’s development.

British Educational Psychology: The First Hundred Years is a publishing collaboration between HoPC and the Division of Educational and Child Psychology. Published in January 2013, this is the first in the proposed series of HoPC Monographs.

Contents
About the contributors v
Preface vii
Acknowledgements vii

Chapter 1 Origins Christopher Arnold 1
Vignette 1: Defining Psychology, British Journal of Psychology, January 1904, Vol 1 No1

Chapter 2 The rise of education Christopher Arnold
Vignette 2: Part of Cyril Burt’s contract with the London County Council

Chapter 3 An evolving discipline: Exploring the origins of educational psychology, educational selection and special education Vivian Hill
Vignette 3: Edited extract from the transcript of Burt’s 1964 speech, made on being made a Patron of the Association of Educational Psychologists: ‘The School Psychological Service: Its History and Development’

Chapter 4 ‘Challenging behaviour’ and the challenges educational psychologists
Adrian Faupel & Julia Hardy
Vignette 4: An encounter with Sir Cyril Burt Trevor Bryant

Chapter 5 From ascertainment to reconstruction: 1944–1978 Harriet Martin
Vignette 5: Memories of training in the 1960s Chris Reeve

Chapter 6 Psychology for all: Everything you need to know about why it all went wrong and how to put it right Jonathan Solity
Vignette 6: Memories of practice in the 1970s: Was this indeed the optimal time to work as an educational psychologist? Sue Morris

Chapter 7 The changing nature of assessment by educational psychologists: Yesterday, today and tomorrow R.J. (Sean) Cameron & Julia Hardy
Vignette 7: My last thirty years as an educational psychology practitioner
R.J. (Sean) Cameron & Julia Hardy

Chapter 8 Giving it (psychology) all away in the 1990s! Mike Hymans
Vignette 8: Setting up a special educational needs audit in the 1990s
Mike Hymans

Chapter 9 The development of educational psychology in Scotland
Tommy MacKay & James Boyle
Vignette 9: David Kennedy-Fraser, MA, BSc, FBPsS, FEIST Tommy MacKa

Chapter 10 The move to doctoral training: A study in systems change Norah Frederickson
Vignette 10: Memories of training in the 2000s Juliet Whitehead

Chapter 11 Working across diverse contexts with wider populations: The developing role of the educational psychologist Vivian Hill
Vignette 11: Memories of recent training Reem Dean

Chapter 12 The future of educational psychology Andy Allen & Julia Hardy

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