Promoting Resilience in the Classroom

Carmel Cefai, PhD, chartered educational psychologist, is a lecturer in educational and health psychology in the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education, University of Malta. He is course director of the M.Ed. in Social, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties at the University of Malta, and is co-director of a national research project on social, emotional and behavioural difficulties in school.Professor Paul Cooper is a chartered psychologist and professor of education and is Director if the School of Education and the Centre for Innovation in Raising Educational Achievement at the University of Leicester. UK. He is series editor of the `Innovative Learning for All' series and co-author with Yonca Tiknaz of Nurture Groups in School and At Home: Connecting with Children with Social, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties, which is also in the series.

• Acknowledgements. Foreword by Paul Cooper, Series Editor. Chapter 1. Educational Resilience for All. Part 1: A Model for Classroom Practitioners. Chapter 2. Introducing Risk and Resilience in Education. Chapter 3. A model of Resilience-enhancing Classrooms. Part 2: Classroom Practices. Chapter 4. Caring Classrooms: Building Connections with Pupils. Chapter 5. Prosocial Classrooms: Caring and Supportive Peer Relationships. Chapter 6. Engaging Classrooms: Authentic, Inclusive Engagement. Chapter 7. Collaborative Classrooms: Learning and Working Together. Chapter 8. Empowering Classrooms: Choice, Voice and Belief. Part 3: A Plan of Action for the Classroom Practitioner. Chapter 9. A Plan of Action for Educational Resilience in the Classroom. Appendix: A Naturalistic Study of Classrooms. References. Subject Index. Author Index.

It is appropriate that such an important, well-referenced and practical book on promoting inclusive practice is itself written in such a positive and inclusive way. I think it practices what it preaches... This recent publication should find its way onto the shelf of all Educational Psychology Service libraries, and is recommended to all schools.