Vanderbilt Peabody College of education and human development faculty members Karen Harris and Steve Graham have been selected as co-editors of the first edition of the American Psychological Association‘s Educational Psychology Handbook. The handbook will serve as a key tool for practitioners, professors and students of educational psychology, which seeks to improve learning by applying psychological principles and knowledge in classrooms.
The handbook, which will likely be multiple volumes, is expected to be published in 2010 or 2011.
"Our target audience includes researchers in higher education and institutions, graduate students, teachers, school administrators and other educational professionals such as school psychologists and consultants," Harris and Graham wrote in their successful proposal to APA. "The volumes in this handbook will represent the best science and evidence for research-practice synthesis in the field. In addition, unresolved and controversial topics will be explored, and needs for further theoretical and research developments critical to the field will be identified."
Harris is professor and Currey Ingram Chair in Special Education. She has worked in the field of education for over 30 years. Her research focuses on issues surrounding academic and self-regulation strategies among students who are at-risk and those with severe learning challenges. Author of over 100 publications and co-author of several books, she contributes to the leading journals in special education, general education and educational psychology. She is currently editor of the Journal of Educational Psychology and has served on numerous editorial boards.
Graham is also professor and Currey Ingram Chair in Special Education. His research interests include learning disabilities, writing instruction and writing development, and the development of self-regulation. Graham is author of numerous books and over 135 papers on handwriting, writing instruction and learning disabilities. He is the editor of Exceptional Children and the former editor of Contemporary Educational Psychology.
In 2005, Harris and Graham received the Career Research Award from the International Council for Exceptional Children. They are investigators in the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development.
Vanderbilt’s Peabody College was ranked as the No. 2 education school in the nation in 2008 by U.S. News & World Report. For more information about Peabody, visit http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu.
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