A new field of research in education is emerging known as emotional intelligence. This book showcases the many contributions that emotional intelligence can make to education and to the wellbeing of schools as social communities. This book recognises the changing role of the teacher and acknowledges the new skills and ways of understanding that are required to deliver education in contemporary society and within the context of the ongoing development of the teacher. A number of approaches within the emotional intelligence field are explored in this book so as to enable readers to better understand the diverse needs of the student.

This book examines a series of innovations in education. The book editors argue "innovation is not necessarily an all encompassing large change but can be anything that deviates from current practice". In this book Knight and Van der Zwan present a number of authors who have written chapters on a range of innovations in education as diverse as leadership, learning design, pedagogy, classroom practices, assessment organisation, resource use and enhancing teacher capabilities.

Psychology is a discipline with a rich and proud history of research, both pure and applied. With that point in mind this book is the first in a series that incorporates essays focused on current issues in both the laboratory and in the workplace.