| AdminHistory | British Journal of Educational Psychology started in 1931 incorporating a previous publication 'Forum of Education' 1922-1930. Prior to this it was The Journal of Experimental Pedagogy and Training College Record 1911-1922)] which was not exclusively concerned with the psychology of education.
The British Jourrnal of Educational Psychology although supported by the British Psychological Society was, after negotiations with Training College Association set up as a separate company in 1930 The company ran until 1994 and at a special meeting 10 Nov 1995 BJEP Ltd Directors agreed that the whole of its net assets be transferred to the Society and attached the following conditions:
“That the traditional styles and methods of working of this journal and the authority of its Editor can continue, and the assets transferred to be earmarked so that funds not required by the Journal are reserved for use in educational psychology or education in psychology.” The following year its assets of £260K were transferred to the Brtiish Psychological Society as a restricted fund and the company was formally dissolved in 1997.
In order to attract an international audience abstracts of papers were initially published in French and German to augment the English language articles.
Editor
C W Valentine 1931-1956
P E Vernon 1956-1961
Lewis B Birch 1962-
Noel Entwistle c. 1975-1979
Dennis Child c. 1979-1983
Geoff Brown c. 1983-1986
Hazel Francis 1985-1989
Michael Youngman 1995
P D Tomlinson 2001
Julie Dockrell ?
Andrew Tolmie 2007-2012
Harriet Tennebaum 2013-2015 |
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