ABSTRACT
This chapter makes a case for educational psychology as a politics that imbibe the spirit of critical pedagogy in the teacher’s leadership and activities. How educational psychology can be social as well as critical? The current scenario of educational psychology is department-based and aloof. Its theorizing is based on the search for something which is within the human agency such as ability, aptitude, and creativity thus facilitating the idea of meritocracy more strongly. There is no room for understanding or collaborating with the scholars of critical pedagogy. If any approach to integrating with other disciplines happens, it is limited by its metatheory of individualism. The making of educational psychology is to be critically social and authentically innovative in the sense to bring movement in its approach to social change.
