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 Index

Conceptualizes children's transitions across a range of educational settings to bring to the foreground societal, institutional and personal perspectives which have received little attention in the research conducted in this field so far.

The Bloomsbury Transitions in Childhood and Youth series brings together books that present and explore empirical research and theoretical discussion on the themes of childhood and youth transitions. Special attention is directed to conceptualizing transitions holistically so that societal, institutional and personal perspectives are featured within and across books. Key to the series is presenting the processes of transitions between practices or activities and their relationship to the person, in contexts such as, intergenerational family practices, the processes of care, a person’s development, the learning of individuals, groups and systems, personal health, labour and birthing and aging. All books take a broad cultural-historical approach of transitions across a range of contexts and countries and when brought together in one place make an important contribution to better understanding transitions globally. Books in the Transitions in Childhood and Youth series offer an excellent resource for postgraduate students, researchers, policy writers and academics. Advisory Board: Anne Edwards (University of Oxford, UK) Fernando Gonzalez-Rey (University Center of Brasília, Brazil) Jennifer Vadeboncoeur (University of British Columbia, Canada) Anna Stetsenko (City University of New York, USA)