Promoting Resilience in the Classroom ─ A Guide to Developing Pupils' Emotional and Cognitive Skills

Cefai, an educational psychologist who also teaches at the U. of Malta, presents a guide for teachers and other school staff to encouraging cognitive, social, and emotional skills in all children in a classroom that fosters resilience and prepares them for life. He describes a framework in which classroom practitioners can develop an action plan and gives examples of nine effective primary school classrooms in Malta. Annotation c2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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.