Families and Transition to School

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xv

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2. Transition to School: A Family Affair

   • Sue Dockett, Wilfried Griebel, Bob Perry

   Pages 1-18

3. Experiences and Expectations of Families as Children Start School

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19

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   2. Transition to Being Parents of a School-Child: Parental Perspective on Coping of Parents and Child Nine Months After School Start

      • Wilfried Griebel, Andreas Wildgruber, Andrea Schuster, Julia Radan

      Pages 21-36

   3. Giving Voice to Families from Immigrant and Refugee Backgrounds During Transition to School

      • Katey De Gioia

      Pages 37-49

   4. Hope, Despair and Everything in Between – Parental Expectations of Educational Transition for Young Children with Intellectual Disability

      • Jenny Wilder, Anne Lillvist

      Pages 51-66

   5. ‘Everybody Has Got Their Own Story’: Urban Aboriginal Families and the Transition to School

      • Catherine Kaplun, Rebekah Grace, Jenny Knight, Jane Anderson, Natasha West, Holly Mack et al.

      Pages 67-82

4. Resources Families Bring to Transition to School

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83

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   2. Primary School Choice and the ‘Good’ Mother: Balancing Complex Support Needs and Responsibility

      • Sue Dockett, Bob Perry

      Pages 85-100

   3. Connected Dynamics: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives on Family Life and the Transition to School

      • Dominik Krinninger, Marc Schulz

      Pages 101-116

   4. ‘I Had a Grandfather Who Taught Me Everything’: Grandparents as Family Capital in Transition to School

      • Tuija A. Turunen, Bob Perry

      Pages 117-129

   5. School Choice and Parent Involvement Among Australian Children Starting School

      • Graham Daniel, Cen Wang, Elizabeth Murray, Linda J. Harrison

      Pages 131-143

5. Parent and System Perspectives on Transition to School

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-145

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   2. Parents’ Emotional and Academic Attitudes Towards Children’s Transition to Preschool Class – Dimensions of School Readiness and Continuity

      • Helena Ackesjö

      Pages 147-161

   3. Transition to School from the Perspective of the Girls’ and Boys’ Parents

      • Anna Kienig

      Pages 163-173

   4. Are We All Talking the Same Language? Parents, Practitioners and Teachers Preparing Children to Start School

      • Karen Wickett

      Pages 175-191

6. Relationships and Collaboration

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 193-193

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   2. Preparing to Start School: Parent and Early Childhood Educator Narratives

      • Joanne S. Lehrer, Nathalie Bigras, Isabelle Laurin

      Pages 195-210

   3. Partnering in the Periphery

      • Wendy Goff

      Pages 211-224

   4. The Transition to Primary School as a Challenge for Parents

      • Petra Hanke, Johanna Backhaus, Andrea Bogatz, Majdah Dogan

      Pages 225-242

This collection addresses issues related to families and transition, and pays special attention to the transition to school, the effect of this on the family, as well as the effect of the family on that transition. It celebrates the roles of families, locating them as integral partners in time of transition and identifying a variety of ways in which families and educators can work together with children to promote positive transitions. The book draws on a range of theoretical frameworks and research projects to provide multiple perspectives of family involvement in education, family-educator partnerships, the nature of collaboration, issues for families in marginalised or complex circumstances, as well as the multiple intersections of families and transition processes. The research projects reported range from in-depth case studies to the analysis of large-scale data sets and all have multiple messages for practitioners, policy makers and researchers as they seek ways to engage with families as their children start school.

• starting primary school
• starting preschool class
• immigrant and refugee families starting school
• school choice
• partnerships between parents and educators
• urban Aboriginal families and the transition to school
• gender and transition to school
• impact of families on transition to school
• grandparents and transition to school
• language and transition to school
• families of children with learning disabilities transition
• research, policy and practice on families transition to school
• impact of transition to school on families

• School of Education, Charles Sturt University, Albury-Wodonga, Australia

  Sue Dockett, Bob Perry

• State Institute of Early Childhood Research (IFP), Munich, Germany

  Wilfried Griebel

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