Listening to Children’s Advice about Starting School and School Age Care

Reflecting the importance of drawing on children's perspectives to shape professional practice, this book offers a nuanced approach to understanding the aims, implications and practicalities of accessing and incorporating children's perspectives in pedagogial practices relating to transitions.

Foreword: introduction to the EECERA Book Series About the Contributors and Editors Chapter 1: Children's perspectives of transition to school: Exploring possibilities Chapter 2: Communities of children in the transition from kindergarten to school Chapter 3: Children's agency in transition experiences: Understanding possibilities and challenges Chapter 4: Transitions as a two-way window: Separation and adjustment in transition through the eyes of children starting school Chapter 5: Different transitions: Children's different experiences of the transition to school Chapter 6: Following children's advice on transitions from preschool to primary school Chapter 7: Children's views on their learning in preschool and school - Reflections and influence on practice Chapter 8: Connecting school and leisure-time centre: Children as brokers Chapter 9: Children's voices as a bridge between educators in kindergarten and teachers in primary school: Potential of children's perspectives to support professional development Chapter 10: Children's voices about transition processes: Strategic adaptation and civic resilience Chapter 11: From research to practice: Continuing the conversation Index