Bøker av Stephen Vassallo

Certain psychological constructs, which appear beneficial, are used to explain or change student behaviour, which then have unintended, negative consequences. This book is for educators, researchers, policy-makers, and even parents as visions for ideal selfhood circulate in parenting guides as well as education policy.

This book proposes a framework for critically examining dominant and taken-for-granted ideas in educational psychology, then applies that framework to the examination of Self-regulated learning (SRL) to show how it endorses middle-class conventions, aligns with neoliberal logic, and renders individuals subordinate to oppressive educational structures.