Children's Transitions in Everyday Life and Institutions

Mariane Hedegaard is Professor Emeritus in Developmental Psychology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Marilyn Fleer is Professor and Foundation Chair of Early Childhood Education and Development at Monash University, Australia.

1. Children’s Transitions in Everyday Life across Institutions: New Conceptions and Understandings of Transitions, Mariane Hedegaard and Marilyn Fleer
Part I: Societal Trajectories: Children’s Life Courses
2. Play and Life Competencies as Core in Transition from Kindergarten to School: Tension between Values in Early Childhood Education, Mariane Hedegaard and Kasper Munk
3. Becoming a Schoolchild: A Positive Developmental Crisis, Ditte Winther-Lindqvist
4. Children from Expatriate Families Moving Countries and Entering School Mid Semester: New Entrants Transitioning into Established Practice, Megan Adams and Marilyn Fleer
5. From Play to Learning: Playfulness as a Resource in Children’s Transition, Paula Cavada Hrepich
6. Negotiating the Demands and Motives in Primary School Transitions, Judith MacCallum and Veronica Morcom
Part II: Transition between Daily Practices and Everyday Activity Settings
7. Children’s Everyday Transitions, Dorte Kousholt
8. "A Darwinist at Our Table?": Discursive Transitions between School and Home, Lucas Gottzén and Karin Aronsson
9. Children and Teachers’ Transitioning in Playworlds: The Contradiction between Real Relations and Play Relations as a Source of Children’s Development, Marilyn Fleer
10. Transition between Children’s Play and Teacher Initiated Activities: An Analysis Of Children’s Motives and Teachers’ Pedagogical Demands in Two Preschools, Anamika Devi, Marilyn Fleer and Liang Li
11. Mapping Imagining through Transitions Within, Between, and from Imaginative Play: Changing Demands as Developmental Opportunities, Jennifer Vadeboncoeur
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