A comprehensive treatment of educational psychology, looking at the historic contributions of 16 leading psychologists, as well as others, who influenced the field of educational psychology from its philosophical moorings in the late-19th century to its current scientific status at the dawn of the 21st. It presents information regarding these individuals' ideas and scientific discoveries, along with a sense of the historical context in which they lived. The text is divided into three sections that correspond to three eras in the history of the discipline: the founding period (1880s to 1920);...