Transitions to School - International Research, Policy and Practice / edited by Bob Perry, Sue Dockett, Anne Petriwskyj.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Perry, Bob, Editor.

Dockett, Sue, Editor.

Petriwskyj, Anne, Editor.

Series:

International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development, 2468-8754 ; 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Early childhood education.

Education and state.

Early Childhood Education.

Educational Policy and Politics.

Local Subjects:

Early Childhood Education.

Educational Policy and Politics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (301 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2014.

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book provides an important compilation and synthesis of current work in transition to school research. The book focuses strongly on the theoretical underpinnings of research in transition to school. It outlines key theoretical positions and connects those to the implications for policy and practice, thereby challenging readers to re-conceptualize their understandings, expectations and perceptions of transition to school. The exploration of this range of theoretical perspectives and the application of these to a wide range of research and research contexts makes this book an important and innovative contribution to the scholarship of transition to school research. A substantial part of the book is devoted to detailed examples of transition to school practice. These chapters provide innovative examples of evidence-based practice and contribute in turn, to practice-based evidence. The book is also devoted to considering policy issues and implications related to the transition to school. It records a genuine, collaborative effort to bring together a range of perspectives into a Transition to School Position Statement that will inform ongoing research, practice and policy. The collaborative, research, policy and practice based development of this position statement represents a world-first.

Contents:

About the editors

About the authors

Foreword; Wilfried Griebel

Theorising Transitions: Shifts and Tensions; Sue Dockett, Anne Petriwskyj and Bob Perry

Building on Bioecological Perspectives

Reading of Media Accounts of Transition to School in Iceland; Jóhanna Einarsdóttir

Thinking about Transitions – One Framework or Many? Populating the Theoretical Model over Time; Aline-Wendy Dunlop

Multiple Influences on Children’s Transition to School; Elizabeth Murray

Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Influences on School Transition; Linda Harrison

Transition and Adjustment to School; Kay Margetts

Transitions and Emergent Writers; Noella Mackenzie

Borderlands, Life Course and Rites of Passage

Chasms, Bridges and Borderlands: A Transitions Research ‘Across the Border’ from Early Childhood Education to School in New Zealand; Sally Peters

Transition to School – A Rite of Passage in Life; Anders Garpelin

A Sociocultural Approach to Children in the Transition from Home to Kindergarten; Mei Seung Lam

Experienced and Recalled Transition. Starting School as Part of Life History; Tuija Turunen

Critical Perspectives

The Relation of Research on Readiness to Research/Practice of Transitions; Elizabeth Graue and June Reineke

Social Justice Dimensions of Starting School; Bob Perry

Transition to School: Normative or Relative?; Sue Dockett

Critical Theory and Inclusive Transitions to School; Anne Petriwskyj

Connecting Theory, Research, Policy and Practice

Starting School: Synthesis and Analysis; Amy MacDonald, Wendy Goff, Kathryn Hopps, Cathy Kaplun and Susanne Rogers

The Wollongong Transition to School Experience: A Big Step for Children, Families and the Community; Tracey Kirk-Downey and Shabnam Hinton

Transitions, Inclusion and Information Technology; Bronwyn Glass and Margaret Cotman

Building Connections around Transition: Partnerships and Resources for Inclusion; MargeArnup

Research to Policy: Transition to School Position Statement; Sue Dockett and Bob Perry.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record.

ISBN:

9789400773509

9400773501

OCLC:

902409383