Transitions to School - International Research, Policy and Practice [electronic resource] / edited by Bob Perry, Sue Dockett, Anne Petriwskyj.

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.