Editors:
- Brings together the theoretical frameworks for researching transition to primary school used by leading researchers in the field
- Explores the major practical implications of the research and its theory frameworks in the field
- Re-conceptualizes policy and practice in this critical area of young children’s lives?
- International authorship ensures important research, policy and practice issues are covered from many different perspectives
Part of the book series: International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development (CHILD, volume 9)
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Building on Bioecological Perspectives
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Front Matter
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Borderlands, Life Course and Rites of Passage
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Connecting Theory, Research, Policy and Practice
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About this book
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.
Keywords
- Transition to School Position Statement
- between preschool and primary school
- early childhood education and development
- implications for policy and practice
- inclusive transition to school
- social justice dimensions of starting schools
- the Wollongong transition to school network
- transition and inclusion
- transition to school research
Editors and Affiliations
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School of Education, Charles Sturt University, Albury-Wodonga, Australia
Bob Perry, Sue Dockett
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School of Early Childhood, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Australia
Anne Petriwskyj
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Transitions to School - International Research, Policy and Practice
Editors: Bob Perry, Sue Dockett, Anne Petriwskyj
Series Title: International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7350-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-7349-3Published: 15 November 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-7984-5Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-7350-9Published: 04 November 2013
Series ISSN: 2468-8746
Series E-ISSN: 2468-8754
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 294
Number of Illustrations: 22 b/w illustrations
Topics: Early Childhood Education, Educational Policy and Politics