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Experience of School Transitions

Policies, Practice and Participants

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Editors:
  1. Stephen Billett

    1. , School of Education & Prof. Studies, Griffith University, Griffith, Australia

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  2. Greer Johnson

    1. , School of Education & Professional Studi, Griffith University, Griffith, Australia

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  3. Sue Thomas

    1. , School of Education & Professional Studi, Griffith University, Griffith, Australia

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  4. Cheryl Sim

    1. School of Education, Griffith University, Griffith, Australia

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  5. Stephen Hay

    1. , School of Education & Professional Studi, Griffith University, Griffith, Australia

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  6. Jill Ryan

    1. , School of Education & Professional Studi, Griffith University, Griffith, Australia

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  • First volume on school transitions from a broad international perspective
  • Provides a theoretical and empirical understanding of young people's transition experiences
  • Advises about how these transitions might best progress

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. School Transitions: Overview, Policy Orientations and Theorisations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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  3. School transitions: Overview, policy orientations and theorisations

    1. Experiences of School Transitions: Policies, Practice and Participants

      • Stephen Billett, Greer Johnson
      Pages 3-22

    2. Reconciling the System World with the Life Worlds of Young Adults: Where Next for Youth Transition Policies?

      • Karen Evans
      Pages 23-42

    3. Bridging School and Work: A Person-in-Context Model for Enabling Resilience in At-Risk Youth

      • Christopher DeLuca, Nancy L. Hutchinson, Joan Versnel, Jennifer Dods, Peter Chin
      Pages 43-67

  4. Imperatives for and Practices of Transitions: International Perspectives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 69-69
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  6. Experiences of Schooling: Contemporary Practices and Experiences

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163
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  7. Experiences of schooling: Contemporary practices and experiences

    1. Researching Transition Experiences in Australian Senior Schooling

      • Jill Ryan, Greer Johnson, Stephen Billett
      Pages 165-177

    2. Excluded from the Game: A Case Study of Transitions for non-Tertiary-Bound Students in a Queensland Private School

      • Stephen Hay, Cheryl Sim
      Pages 179-199

    3. Pathways and Choice: Transitions at Sunny Beach College

      • Sue Thomas, Jill Ryan
      Pages 201-217

    4. A Critical Focus on Family-School-Community Partnerships: St Jude’s Secondary College Transition Program for ‘At-Risk’ Students

      • Greer Johnson, Stephen Billett
      Pages 219-233

    5. The Impact of Interrupted Schooling: Recent School Leavers’ Accounts of Transitions

      • Esther Beltermann, Jill Ryan, Stephen Billett
      Pages 235-250

    6. The Translation of Transitions Policies into School Enactment

      • Cheryl Sim, Stephen Hay, Greer Johnson, Sue Thomas
      Pages 251-264

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 265-274
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About this book

Leaving school, whether to move on to training, work or education, is a fundamental rite of passage the world over. This volume draws on a wealth of international sources and studies in its analysis of the ‘transitions’ young students make as they move on from their secondary schooling. It identifies how these transitions are planned for by policymakers, enacted by school staff and engaged with by students themselves. With data from a range of nations with advanced industrial economies, the book delineates how the policies relating to these transitions need to be conceived and implemented, how the transitions themselves are negotiated by young people, and how they might be shaped to meet the varied needs of the students they are designed to help. The authors argue that the relationship, often complex, between what schools provide in the way of preparation, and the ways in which students take up what is on offer, is the crucial nexus for understanding the experience of transitions by young people, and for enhancing that experience. With a host of case studies of transition policies themselves, as well as evaluative data on how they were received by the school leavers whom they were designed for, this valuable addition to the educational literature deserves to be read by all those with roles in preparing the young for their journey into a complex adult world full of pitfalls as well as opportunity.

Editors and Affiliations

  • , School of Education & Prof. Studies, Griffith University, Griffith, Australia

    Stephen Billett

  • , School of Education & Professional Studi, Griffith University, Griffith, Australia

    Greer Johnson, Sue Thomas, Stephen Hay, Jill Ryan

  • School of Education, Griffith University, Griffith, Australia

    Cheryl Sim

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Experience of School Transitions

  • Book Subtitle: Policies, Practice and Participants

  • Editors: Stephen Billett, Greer Johnson, Sue Thomas, Cheryl Sim, Stephen Hay, Jill Ryan

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4198-0

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2012

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-4197-3Published: 24 June 2012

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9277-7Published: 18 July 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-4198-0Published: 22 June 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 276

  • Topics: Educational Policy and Politics, Higher Education, Professional & Vocational Education

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