Topics for the New Educational Psychology
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Abstract
Teachers College Record has been an occasional host for interpretive scholarship written by educational psychologists. But educational psychology’s empirical work has tended to appear in other outlets, such as the Journal of Educational Psychology, Educational Psychologist, and Contemporary Educational Psychology. Despite a long association with Teachers College as a faculty member, I am only just now publishing in Teachers College Record. However, the Record has been changing recently; it has a new look and even a Web page! As part of this new look, editor Gary Natriello has sought to reignite readers with publication of some empirical and conceptual work in fields that appeal to the Record’s broad audience. The present issue, accordingly, presents “Topics for The New Educational Psychology.” Our hope is that both practitioners and researchers will find this issue informative. It illustrates the kinds of questions and topics of interest to educational psychologists today, as well as some of the modern research methods being tried. To explain why I have selected this material and these authors in particular, some historical background is in order.