Shaping the Future: Innovations in Applied Educational Psychology
A special issue of Education Sciences (ISSN 2227-7102). This special issue belongs to the section "Education and Psychology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2026 | Viewed by 504
Editors
Interests: educational psychology; students with mathematical learning difficulties
Interests: dyslexia; the impact of labels; particularly young people’s perceptions of the value of a label; mental health support in schools; similarly how this is perceived by young people
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This special issue invites contributions that support consideration of how the shifting landscape is influencing professional educational and school psychology practice.
Psychosocial and wider environmental influences on development from ages 0–25 are changing. These changes are creating new challenges for children and young people in terms of their engagement with education. As a result, educational and school psychology practitioners must respond to a growing range of issues that arise in communities, social media and educational settings.
Practitioners must rethink and renew their approaches to complex domains such as equity and inclusion in education, particularly in the context of ongoing societal structural inequalities. Other key areas include the development and expression of student identities, climate change, growing global instability, the impact of digital technologies and AI in learning.
This special issue invites school and educational psychologists to re-examine these challenges and share research and perspectives that can help inform practice in responding to the significant psychosocial pressures affecting children and young people and those who support them.
Theoretical and empirical contributions are invited from practitioners, or academics, not limited to, but including consideration of the following themes, for example:
- Theoretical and practice innovations in educational and school psychology: including culturally responsive and anti-oppressive practices.
- Evolutions in and critical approaches to psychological evidence on childhood and youth development in context, that can support applied psychology.
- Conceptual developments in and applications of risk and resiliency theorising.
- Examination of the relationships between applied psychology theory and practice, including developments in implementation science.
- Consideration of how allied disciplines e.g. social psychology, or sociology or philosophy, support critical or ecological approaches in educational and school psychology delivery.
- Developments in the methods for scrutiny of evidence to inform educational and school psychology practice: for example methodological developments in the examination of practice-based evidence, or evidence-informed practices.
- Consideration of how the needs of children and young people can be met through strategic approaches to policy or provision, that are guided by psychological evidence.
Dr. Anthea Gulliford
Dr. Sarah Wright
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- educational psychology
- school psychology
- applied educational psychology
- childhood
- adolescence
- learning environments
- implementation science
- critical psychology
- digital and AI-mediated learning
- evidence-informed
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