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This article looks at ways of bridging the discontinuities young children experience between three settings: the home environment, the early childhood setting, and the new entrant classroom. It...
| Year published: 2006 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article
With a focus on dispositions and affordances, Sally Peters considers some of the dominant theoretical ideas about transition, including maturational readiness, “filling the gaps”, scaffolding the...
| Year published: 2003 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article
When young children move from one educational setting to another, it is important to understand the context of their prior experiences. Most children starting primary school have already experienced...
| Year published: 2001 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article
A fascinating insight into how children learn “to do school”. This study identifies the ways in which children make use of peer modelling and assistance as first they adjust to the classroom climate...
| Year published: 1999 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article
Three recent books, two from the United Kingdom and one from New Zealand, are based on three research projects. The results and lessons for us are examined. (From set: Research Information for...
| Year published: 1986 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article
Beginning formal schooling is a time of change and challenge for children, families, and educators. This article focuses on one approach by the Starting School Research Project to engage first-year...
| Year published: 2003 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article
Interviews with nine families about the transition to school for their special needs children showed that parents faced rejection and a multitude of dilemmas over access to resources, specialist...
| Year published: 2002 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article
From 2005–8 the Mangere Bridge Kindergarten Centre of Innovation research project investigated the transition between early childhood education and school. The research team developed and...
| Year published: 2009 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article
This article examines findings from an action research project by three early childhood teachers and one researcher in an Early Learning Centre in a private school setting in Australia....
| Year published: 2012 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article
This article draws on ongoing research by the teaching team at Mangere Bridge Kindergarten that investigates the role of a transition portfolio for children making the transition to primary...
| Year published: 2014 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: ECF2014_2_003.pdf | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article