The Child at School: Interactions with peers and teachers, 2nd Edition

by Peter Blatchford, Anthony D. Pellegrini, Ed Baines

Overview

What is the nature of children’s social life in school?
How do their relationships and interactions with peers, teachers and other school staff influence their development and experience of school?
This book, written by leading researchers in educational and developmental psychology, provides answers to these questions by offering an integrated perspective on children’s social interactions and relationships with their peers and teachers in school. Peer interactions in school have tended to be underestimated by educationalists, and this book redresses the balance by giving them equal weight to teacher–child interactions.

In this second edition, the authors extensively revise the text on the basis of many years of research and teaching experience. They highlight common misconceptions about children, their social lives, and school achievement which have often resulted in ineffective school policy. The book includes a number of important topics, including:

 
• The significance of peer-friendships at school
 
• The nature and importance of play and break-times
 
• Aggression and bullying at school
 
• Peer relations and learning at school
 
• The classroom environment and teacher-pupil interaction
 
• The influence of gender in how children learn at school.
 
• Advantages and disadvantages of different methodological approaches for studying children in school settings
 
• Policy implications of current research findings.
 

The Child at School will be essential reading for all students of child development and educational psychology. It will also be an invaluable source for both trainee and practicing teachers and teaching assistants, as well as clinical psychologists and policy makers in this area.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781848722996
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/16/2015
Series:	International Texts in Developmental Psychology
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	318
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Peter Blatchford is Professor of Psychology and Education at the UCL Institute of Education, UK.

Anthony D. Pellegrini is Emeritus Professor at the University of Minnesota, USA.

Ed Baines is Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Education at the UCL Institute of Education, UK.

Table of Contents

1. An Introduction to The Child at School 2. Children’s social competence and peer relations 3. Pupil friendships in school 4. Children’s Play 5. Breaktime/Recess in school 6. Aggression in school: the specific case of bullies and victims 7. Peer Relations and School Learning 8. Classroom environments 9. Adult-pupil Interactions in the classroom 10. Teacher expectations 11. Differences in classroom interaction in relation to gender 12. A concluding note

Editorial Reviews

‘Schools are amongst the most significant contexts in which children develop, and children’s prior development influences how they respond to schools. The over-arching aim of The Child at School is to underline this inter-dependency and to challenge the widespread belief that education and development can be treated separately. It succeeds triumphantly, providing a compendium of up-to-date research on topics as varied as play, bullying, gender, ability grouping, and class size. No comparable volume comes close to matching in breadth of vision.’ – Christine Howe, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, UK

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