Ana Ž. Pešikan, Learning in Educational Context: Psychology of Learning/ Teaching [Srb: Učenje u obrazovnom kontekstu: osnove psihologije učenja/nastave], Službeni glasnik, 2020; 451 pp.: ISBN: 978-86-519-2435-7

Abstract

Ana Pešikan’s monograph Learning in Educational Context: Psychology of Learning/Teaching is a truly exceptional book – it offers many important insights and enough provocative material to make it a page-turner that leaves you wishing for more. What makes it so great is both its content and the way it is conceptualised. You can say this publication is a scientific monograph and a textbook in one. When you read sections and paragraphs, the book clearly meets the highest standards for academic writing. It is also skilfully ‘accessorised’ to answer all expectations for a quality textbook. These remarks will be explained in more detail. The monograph includes nine sections that are strongly and logically interconnected – starting from the conceptual and methodological frameworks for studying learning/teaching, through the exploration of characteristics of quality learning/teaching, all the way to the deliberation of the very principles and purpose of education in the 21st century. In that sense, it greatly surpasses what is expected from a monograph, both in its volume and scope. In the first chapter, Ana Pešikan offers a theoretical introduction, addressing various concepts and terms in this field, underlining the difference between two disciplines in psychology – educational psychology and school psychology. After positioning the psychology of learning/teaching in