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Direct linkJorgensen, Robyn – Early Child Development and Care, 2016
Informal learning contexts may provide opportunities for adding capital to young children in their years prior to schooling. This paper explores the potential of the early-years swim context to add capital to young children that may position them favourably for the transition to school. Using Bourdieu's notion of capital, the paper discusses the…
Descriptors: Aquatic Sports, Young Children, Adjustment (to Environment), Transitional Programs
Maniates, Helen – Early Child Development and Care, 2016
Early childhood educators are concerned about a "shovedown" of elementary school expectations, standards, and curriculum on to young children due to policy-makers' moves towards utilising preschool programmes to address disparities in academic achievement. This study employs interviews and classroom observations to contrast the…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education
Lau, Eva Yi Hung – Early Child Development and Care, 2014
Parents' perceptions and practices of parental involvement during the transition from kindergarten to primary school were captured through individual interviews with 18 Chinese parents after their children had entered primary school. The responses revealed that in order to facilitate children's adjustment during school transition, parents tended…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Influence, Parent Participation, Parent Attitudes
Peer reviewedDockett, Sue; Perry, Bob – Early Child Development and Care, 1999
Fifty young children were interviewed concerning their experiences, expectations, and perceptions about starting school. Responses indicated strong focus on rules encountered in school and feelings about going to school. Conventional rules were mentioned most often, with moral and task rules negligible. Seventy-five percent of references to…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Elementary School Students, Emotional Response, Interviews
Peer reviewedGelfer, Jeffrey I.; McCarthy, Jane – Early Child Development and Care, 1994
Noting that the transition from preschool to kindergarten presents many challenges to children, families, and teachers, presents a preschool-to-kindergarten planning transition model. The goal of the model is to provide a strategy that assists children, teachers, and families to establish and implement a collaborative transition process. Five…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten, Models, Parent Participation
Peer reviewedPetrie, Allison J.; Davidson, Iain F. W. K. – Early Child Development and Care, 1995
Examined the effects of parent involvement on child adaptation and growth of autonomy during a home-school transitional year. Found that parent involvement had significant potential for change in children who struggled with problems of attachment and other issues of adaptation, and enhanced the quality of the nursery school experience for the…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Attachment Behavior, Family Involvement, Parent Caregiver Relationship
