The approach to the classroom through the lens of Social Psychology allows for viewing it as a multidimensional social structure in which the learning process and its success are shaped by a web of phenomena, processes, and behaviors.

The classroom is a dynamic field of interactions between students and the teacher. In this context, the content and effectiveness of learning are determined by a broad and multifaceted set of intrapersonal processes, interpersonal behaviors, intergroup relationships, and ideological orientations that are directly linked to the individual and social identity of the actors.

Every day, students and teachers bring their selves into the classroom and are called to manage and negotiate temperamental elements and aspects of their social identity, attitudes, perceptions, performances, individual differences, stereotypes and prejudices, in-group biases, and out-group discrimination, as well as their position and behavior towards otherness.

This is a self-contained contract of opinions, beliefs, and behaviors that changes with the flow of events in their micro- and macro-social world.

The Handbook of Social Psychology in the Classroom presents the diversity of social-psychological research in the classroom in a particularly comprehensive manner. It is based on the research and experiential experience of the authors, written in simple, understandable language, and contains examples from the everyday life of the classroom.