Major Publications

On the development of educational systems

McLaughlin, C. and Ruby., A. (2024 in press) Politics and knowledge shaping educational reform: case studies from around the globe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

McLaughlin, C., Winter, l. and Yakavets, N. (2023) Mapping Educational Change in Kazakhstan. Cambridge; Cambridge University Press.

McLaughlin, C. and Ruby., A. (2021) Implementing Educational Reform: cases and challenges. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

McLaughlin, C. and Ruby, A. (2021) Implementing Educational Reform: Cases and Challenges. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 

McLaughlin, C., Dillabough, J., Fimyar, O., Al Azmeh, Z.,  Abdullateef, S., Abedtalas, M., AlAbdullah, S., & Al Oklah, W. A. with Abdulhafiz, A. H., Al-Hussein, Y., Al Ibrahim, Z., Al Mohamad Al Ibrahim, A., Barmu, T., Rashid Mamo, A. and Shaban, F. (2020) ‘Testimonies of Syrian academic displacement post-2011: Time, place and the agentic self.’ International Journal of Educational Research Open. 10.1016/j.ijedro.2020.100003

McLaughlin, C. (2017). ‘Researching practice as education and reform.’ In M. Peters, B. Cowie and I. Menter (Eds.), A Companion to Research in Teacher Education. Springer 

McLaughlin, C., Cordingley, P., McLellan, R. and Baumfield, V. (2015) Making a difference – Turning teacher learning inside out. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

McLaughlin, C., McLellan, R., Fordham, M., Chandler-Grevett, A. and Daubney, A. (2014) ‘The Role of Teachers in Educational Reform in Kazakhstan: Teacher Enquiry as a Vehicle for Change.’ In D. Bridges (Ed.) Educational reform and internationalisation: the case of school reform in Kazakhstan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 

McLaughlin, C. (2013) Teachers Learning: Professional Development and Education. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 

Cooper, P., Drummond, MJ., Hart, S., Lovey, J., and McLaughlin, C. (2000) Positive Alternatives to Exclusion.  London: Routledge (Winner of the NASEN/Times Educational Supplement Academic Book of the Year Award).

On Counselling 

McLaughlin, C. and Holliday, C. (2014) Therapy with Children and Young People: Integrative Counselling in Schools and other Settings. London: Sage

McLaughlin, C., Swartz, S., Kiragu, S., Walli, S. and Muhamed, M. (2012) Old Enough To Know: Consulting Children on African Sexualities. Cape Town, SA: Human Sciences Research Council Press.

McLaughlin, C. and Holliday, C. (2014) Therapy with Children and Young People: Integrative Counselling in Schools and Other Settings. London: Sage

McLaughlin, C. (2008) ‘Emotional Well-Being and Its Relationship to Schools and Classrooms: A Critical Reflection’, British Journal of Guidance and Counselling. 36(4), pp. 353-366.

On Schools-University Partnership

McLaughlin C. and Wood, E. (2020) ‘‘The Village and the World’: Competing agendas in teacher research – professional autonomy, interpretational work and strategic compliance.’ Teaching Education. Special Edition.

McLaughlin, C. (2012) ‘Bullets or butterflies? Teaching, research and knowledge creation.’ Zeitschrift in Erziehungswissenschaf, 3, 2012. Special edition on Didactics in Europe. Published online August 2012

McLaughlin, C., Black-Hawkins, K., and McIntyre, D. (2007) Networking Practitioner Research. London: Routledge.

McLaughlin, C. and Black-Hawkins, K. (2007) ‘School-university partnerships for educational research – distinctions, dilemmas and challenges. The Curriculum Journal, 18(3), pp. 327-341.

McLaughlin, C., Black-Hawkins, K., Brindley, S., McIntyre, D. and Taber, K. (2006) Researching Schools: Stories from a Schools–University Partnership for Educational Research. London: Routledge.

On Schools Role in Mental Health and Young People’s Development

Gray, J., Galton, M., McLaughlin, C., Clark, B. and Symonds, J.  (2011) The Supportive School: Wellbeing and the Young Adolescent. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.  

McLaughlin, C. (ed.) (2015) The Connected School: A Design for Well-Being – Supporting Children and Young People in Schools to Flourish, Thrive and Achieve, London: Pearson/National Children’s Bureau.

Hagell, A., Gray, J., Galton, M. and McLaughlin, C. (2012) ‘Educational changes and possible links with adolescent wellbeing: 1970s to 2000s.’ In A. Hagell (ed). Changing Adolescence: Social Change and Adolescent Mental Health. Bristol: Policy Press.

McLaughlin, C. (2008) ‘Emotional Well-Being and Its Relationship to Schools and Classrooms: A Critical Reflection’, British Journal of Guidance and Counselling. 36(4), pp. 353-366.

McLaughlin, C. (2010) ‘Relational Matters: a review of the impact of school experience on mental health in early adolescence,’ Educational and Child Psychology. 27(1), pp. 95-107