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Content: This module explores the application of psychological theory to the educational environments of schools, colleges and early years settings. The sessions will offer you an insight into how theory from both social, developmental and cognitive psychology influences and informs the role of educational and child psychologists working with children and young people aged 0 to 25.

The series will encourage you to consider how psychology can be applied to support children and young people within education in partnership with parents and carers. It will demonstrate how applied psychologists integrate both research and psychological theory into educational psychology practice.

Topics have been selected to illustrate the typical application of a wide range of psychological theory and research to educational practice.Ìý Aspects of both normal learning and development and atypical performance and behaviour are sampled and examples are drawn where possible from the professional practice of educational and child psychologists.

Teaching delivery: This module is taught in 15 hours of in-person lectures spread over 10 teaching weeks (usually in the format of 5 1-hour lectures in one half of term and 5 2-hour sessions in the other half of term).

Indicative Topics: Indicative lecture topics – based on module content in 2023/24, subject to possible changes: Attribution, Motivation, Looked After Children, Metacognition, Bullying, Exclusion from School, Mental Health Support and Interventions in School, Belonging in Schools, Emotional Development and School, Literacy Development, Inclusion and Dyslexia.

Module Aims: For students to:

• gain an appreciation of ways in which psychology has been applied to education
• be challenged to think about implications of psychological research for improving the effectiveness of teaching and learning
• develop an awareness of educational psychology practice in schools and with parents.