Transitions to School - International Research, Policy and Practice

1. Theorising Transition: Shifts and Tensions
Sue Dockett, Anne Petriwskyj, Bob Perry

Part I. Building on Bioecological Perspectives

2. Readings of Media Accounts of Transition to School in Iceland
Jóhanna Einarsdóttir

3. Thinking About Transitions: One Framework or Many? Populating the Theoretical Model Over Time
Aline-Wendy Dunlop

4. Multiple Influences on Children’s Transition to School
Elizabeth Murray

5. Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Influences on School Transition
Linda J. Harrison

6. Transition and Adjustment to School
Kay Margetts

7. Transitions and Emergent Writers
Noella Mackenzie

Part II. Borderlands, Life Course and Rites of Passage

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

9. Transition to School: A Rite of Passage in Life
Anders Garpelin

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

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

Part III. Critical Perspectives

12. The Relation of Research on Readiness to Research/Practice of Transitions
Elizabeth Graue, June Reineke

13. Social Justice Dimensions of Starting School
Bob Perry

14. Transition to School: Normative or Relative?
Sue Dockett

15. Critical Theory and Inclusive Transitions to School
Anne Petriwskyj

Part IV. Connecting Theory, Research, Policy and Practice

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

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

18. Transitions, Inclusion and Information Technology
Bronwyn Glass, Margaret Cotman

19. Building Connections Around Transition: Partnerships and Resources for Inclusion
Marge Arnup

20. Research to Policy: Transition to School Position Statement
Sue Dockett, Bob Perry

Keywords: Education, Childhood Education, Educational Policy and Politics