Understanding the Impact of Locke, Shaftesbury and Reid
`Billig's is a fascinating work of brilliant scholarship. It is written in an elegant style, spiced with humour, and gives one the feeling that it was a labour of love. It can be recommended without reservation' - Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology `This is a quite extraordinary and original book. Billig has managed seamlessly to interweave History of Philosophy, History of Psychology, Critical Psychology and a deep grasp of the social nature of language and, moreover, do so in a very readable fashion' - Graham Richards, Formerly Professor of History of Psychology, Staffordshire University and Director of the British Psychological Society History of Psychology Centre, London `I can't quite capture how much I enjoyed this book. In beautiful, witty prose and through exemplary scholarship, Billig has produced an historical work that engages with profoundly important ideas not just for contemporary critical psychology but for psychology in general. Books as good as this are rare' - Alan Collins, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Lancaster University Today new forms of critical psychology are challenging the cognitive revolution that has dominated psychology for the past three decades. This book explores the historical roots of these new psychologies. It demonstrates that their ideas are not quite as new as is often supposed. In the early modern period, thinkers like the Earl of Shaftesbury and Thomas Reid reacted against Locke's cognitive psychology in ways that were surprisingly modern, if not post-modern. However, until now, they have been virtually written out of psychology's history. It is now time to recognize the great originality of their psychological thinking. Writing in a non-technical style, Michael Billig seeks to overturn the dominant views of psychology's history. In so doing, he gives a fascinating account of the times, bringing psychology's hidden past vividly back to life.
Presented by an interdisciplinary group of eminent thinkers and writers, this collection of essays offer their thoughts on how embracing creativity - tapping into the ""originality of everyday life"" - can lead to improved physical and mental health, to new ways of thinking, of experiencing the world and ourselves.
'The authors have written a guide for practitioners that is both highly practical, and yet based upon sound theoretical principles!.This book achieves a successful, yet often elusive, link between theory, research and practice, and deserves to have a high readership. I will have no hesitation in recommending it to a range of readers' - Jane Mott, SENCO Update 'This book fulfils its aim to explain working memory and the limits it places on children's classroom learning. For teachers it gives a very clear guide and fills a gap in understanding that can only lead to more child-centred approaches to teaching and learning' - Lynn Ambler, SENCO Update 'A clear and accessible account of current theory and research, which is then applied to children's learning in the classroom...The range of strategies...are well grounded in theory derived from research and sit within a coherent conceptual model' - The Psychologist 'An easy to read yet informative book that explains the concepts clearly and offers practitioners ways to support those with poor working memory in the classroom' - SNIP 'The topic of working memory nowadays tends to dominate discussions with teachers and parents, and both groups can helpfully be directed to this easy-to-read but serious text ! (it) is likely to prove a turning-point in the management and facilitation of hard-to-teach children. In a situation muddied by ever-multiplying syndromes and disorders, this book delivers a clarifying and reassuring isolation of the major cognitive characteristic that cuts across all the boundaries and leaves the class teacher and SENCO empowered. I think very highly of the book and shall be recommending it steadily' - Martin Turner, Child Center for Evaluation and Teaching, Kuwait Susan Gathercole is winner of the British Psychological Society's President's Award for 2007 A good working memory is crucial to becoming a successful learner, yet there is very little material available in an easy-to-use format that explains the concept and offers practitioners ways to support children with poor working memory in the classroom. This book provides a coherent overview of the role played by working memory in learning during the school years, and uses theory to inform good practice. Topics covered include: - the link between working memory skills and key areas of learning (such as literacy & numeracy) - the relationship between working memory and children with developmental disorders - assessment of children for working memory deficits - strategies for supporting working memory in under-performing children This accessible guide will help SENCOs, teachers, teaching assistants, speech and language therapists and educational psychologists to understand and address working memory in their setting.
Surveys the research on how psychological, social, and physiological factors may interact and contribute to the development of symptoms. This volume is of interest to both psychologists and health care professionals interested. It helps them understand the interaction between mind and body in medically unexplained illness.
This text explains how new counsellors - and those with more experience - can develop and improve their skills within the cognitive-behavioural approach. The authors examine areas such as: refining assessments and planning strategies accordingly; monitoring and sustaining the client's motivation; using emotive and further cognitive techniques; and making progress with personality disorder clients. The book also contains various practical hints showing how counsellors can improve their counselling skills.
Giving an analysis of the mental pitfalls that trip up even elite critical thinkers, the author makes a case that under certain circumstances everyone is vulnerable to accepting erroneous beliefs. He begins by reviewing the hallmarks of critical thinking related to the evaluation of claims, and concludes by focusing on a range of claims.
The central project of this volume is a reappraisal of some of the great debates in psychology in the light of recent theoretical and empirical developments of recent years. The author reviews a range of thought and research to demonstrate how the dominant cognitive approach to pscyhology has failed. He makes a case that language is best understood as a kind of activity, as discourse. The argument draws upon enthomethodology, conversation analysis, linguistic philosophy, and social studies of science. These influences underpin an intellectual survey ranging across cognitivism. discursive psychology, shared knowledge, categories and metaphor, emotion and narrative. The emphasis throughout is on the value of close empirical study of text and talk, through which the topics of mind, world and "who we are" are all seen as "ways of talking".
"If you want to energize your teaching, this is the book for you! The research-based content is full of ideas presented in a practical and user-friendly format." -Joanne Cearbaugh, ESL Methods Instructor Taylor University "A wealth of knowledge and practical strategies are packed into this lesson planning book. Teachers will use this informative resource to design quality lessons to reach all learners. This one won't gather dust-it will be that dog-eared, coffee-stained, often-used volume!" -Sandra Hess, Assistant Superintendent Warsaw Community Schools, IN Build your lesson planning collection with this easy-to-use resource! Are you looking for a practical way to infuse your teaching with engaging strategies that are quickly accessible and effective? Wouldn't it be great to have a brain-based reference to help you make informed choices about lesson planning and instruction? In Pick and Plan, Brenda Utter presents a top-notch collection of ready-to-use strategies to help novice and veteran teachers not only energize their lesson planning but also tailor classroom activities to students' individual learning styles. The author reviews the building blocks of the brain, four memory pathways, and current research, and provides brain-compatible approaches that make teaching and learning fun. This all-in-one resource allows you to literally "pick and plan" brain-friendly instruction using: A lesson planning model with five parts: engager, frame, activity, debrief, and story or metaphor 100 classroom-ready, mix-and-match strategies for using mnemonic devices, graphic organizers, manipulatives, and more, based upon how the brain learns and remembers new information Sample lessons that demonstrate each part of the model Featuring research sidebars and a detailed table of contents, this indispensable text will help transform your teaching experience with its easy-to-implement daily lesson planning strategies.
"If you want to energize your teaching, this is the book for you! The research-based content is full of ideas presented in a practical and user-friendly format." -Joanne Cearbaugh, ESL Methods Instructor Taylor University "A wealth of knowledge and practical strategies are packed into this lesson planning book. Teachers will use this informative resource to design quality lessons to reach all learners. This one won't gather dust-it will be that dog-eared, coffee-stained, often-used volume!" -Sandra Hess, Assistant Superintendent Warsaw Community Schools, IN Build your lesson planning collection with this easy-to-use resource! Are you looking for a practical way to infuse your teaching with engaging strategies that are quickly accessible and effective? Wouldn't it be great to have a brain-based reference to help you make informed choices about lesson planning and instruction? In Pick and Plan, Brenda Utter presents a top-notch collection of ready-to-use strategies to help novice and veteran teachers not only energize their lesson planning but also tailor classroom activities to students' individual learning styles. The author reviews the building blocks of the brain, four memory pathways, and current research, and provides brain-compatible approaches that make teaching and learning fun. This all-in-one resource allows you to literally "pick and plan" brain-friendly instruction using: A lesson planning model with five parts: engager, frame, activity, debrief, and story or metaphor 100 classroom-ready, mix-and-match strategies for using mnemonic devices, graphic organizers, manipulatives, and more, based upon how the brain learns and remembers new information Sample lessons that demonstrate each part of the model Featuring research sidebars and a detailed table of contents, this indispensable text will help transform your teaching experience with its easy-to-implement daily lesson planning strategies.
