Table of 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;
Marge Arnup.- Research to Policy: Transition to School Position Statement;
Sue Dockett and Bob Perry.