Yoh Sugisaki, a Pioneering Educational Psychologist in Japan

A Psychologist Looks at Educational Reconstruction

Confessions of an educational psychologist

I am always attempting to develop new and better ways to teach beginning teachers “all there is to know” about child development and special education. Over the years this process has lead me to feel more and more disillusioned. I am convinced that we need a total revamp of how we approach teaching educational psychology and propose that our discipline re-define what is considered to be essenti...

Some Experiences of an Educational Psychologist

Authorities. This arrangement provided an opportunity whereby Authorities doubtful of the scope and value of a psychologist's work might have his, or her, services on trial for a few months in their own area without the complications and commitments involved by themselves making a temporary or a permanent appointment. The plan had a wide appeal for, in a very short time, the psychologist's serv...

A Psychologist-Led Educational Intervention Results in a Sustained Reduction in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Infections

UNLABELLED Even though in the corporate world psychological science has been widely used, the formal use of evidence-based psychology in important areas of clinical medicine has been scanty at best. It was the aim of this study to determine the efficacy of a psychologist-led 2-week nurse educator training on the infection rate in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). MATERIALS AND METHODS ...

An Educational Psychologist ' s Perspective on Cognitive Neuroscience

Byrnes and Fox present a thoughtful article on a neglected but important topic for educational psychologists. Some major contributions are their emphasis on the need for consistency in educational theory and neuroscience research, the lack of automatic correspondence between neuroscience research and educational applications, the need for educator awareness of neuroscience research, the importa...