Children's transitions in everyday life and institutions / edited by Mariane Hedegaard and Marilyn Fleer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hedegaard, Mariane, editor.

Fleer, Marilyn, editor.

Series:

Transitions in childhood and youth

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child development--Cross-cultural studies.

Child development.

Readiness for school--Cross-cultural studies.

Readiness for school.

Early childhood education--Cross-cultural studies.

Early childhood education.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

x, 253 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, NY : Bloomsury Academic, 2019.

Contents:

1 Children's Transitions in Everyday Life and Institutions: New Conceptions and Understandings of Transitions p. 1 / Mariane Hedegaard and Marilyn Fleer

Part 1 Societal Trajectories: Children's Life Courses

2 Play and Life Competences as Core in Transition from Kindergarten to School: Tension Between Values in Early Childhood Education p. 21 / Mariane Hedegaard and Kasper Munk

3 Becoming a Schoolchild: A Positive Developmental Crisis p. 47 / Ditte Winther-Lindqvist

4 Children from Expatriate Families Moving Countries and Entering School Mid-semester: New Entrants Transitioning into Established Practices p. 71 / Megan Adams and Marilyn Fleer

5 Transitioning from Play to Learning: Playfulness as a Resource in Childrens Transition p. 95 / Paula Cavada-Hrepich

6 Negotiating the Demands and Motives in Primary School Transitions p. 123 / Judith MacCallum and Veronica Morcom

Part 2 Transition Between Daily Practices and Everyday Activity Settings

7 Childrens Everyday Transitions: Children's Engagements across Life Contexts p. 145 / Dorte Kousholt

8 A Darwinist at Our Dinner Table?': Discursive Transitions Between School and Home p. 167 / Lucas Gottzén and Karin Aronsson

9 Children and Teachers Transitioning in Playworlds: The Contradictions Between Real Relations and Play Relations as a Source of Childrens Development p. 185 / Marilyn Fleer

10 Transition Between Child-initiated Imaginative Play and Teacher-initiated Activity: An Analysis of Children's Motives and Teachers' Pedagogical Demands in a Preschool Context p. 207 / Anamika Devi and Marilyn Fleer and Liang Li

11 Moral Imagining Through Transitions Within, Between and From Imaginative Play: Changing Demands as Developmental Opportunities p. 227 / Jennifer A. Vadeboncoeur.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at ends of chapters and index.

ISBN:

9781350021457

1350021458

OCLC:

1042476734