Supporting Difficult Transitions Children, Young People and their Carers
Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Mariane Hedegaard is Professor Emerita of Developmental Psychology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Anne Edwards is Professor Emerita in the Department of Education at Oxford University, UK, where she was Director of the department and co-founder of the Oxford University Centre for Sociocultural and Activity Theory Research (OSAT).
Attending to the topic of transitions through this relational approach offers a powerful lens that makes visible taken for granted experiences and enables ways to rethink the processes, practices, and structures we have built. This book reminds us all that we can change what we have built and that, with change, we are likely to see improvements in the experience of transitions.
Jennifer A. Vadeboncoeur, Professor of Human Development, Learning, and Culture, The University of British Columbia, Canada
Essential reading for professionals working with children in times of transitions. Traditional psychological approaches to transitions have largely tended to focus interventions at changing individuals, without developing an understanding of a child’s social situation of development. This book, written by experts in the field, addresses this gap in the literature by situating transitions socio-culturally and historically.
Joanne Hardman, Associate Professor in Education, University of Cape Town, South Africa
1. Rethinking Professional Support for Challenging Transitions: Enabling the Agency of Children, Young People and Their Families, Anne Edwards and Mariane Hedegaard
Part I: A Fresh Look at Professional Work with Children, Young People and Families
2. Child Based Practice Development for Children in Areas of Concern: A Model for Enabling Both the Child’s and Teachers’ Perspectives, Mariane Hedegaard
3. Common Knowledge between Mothers and Children in Problematic Transitions: How Professionals Make Children’s Motives Available as a Resource, Nick Hopwood and Teena Clerke
4. Changing Practices in the Highlands of Vietnam: Transitioning from Subjects of Research to Agents of Change, Marilyn Fleer, Helen Hedges, Freya Fleer-Stout and Hanh Le Thi Bich
5. Radical-Local Screening of Preschool Children’s Social Situations of Development: From Abilities to Activities, Mariane Hedegaard & Naussunguaq Lyberth
Part II: Enabling Families as Supporters of Children’s and Young People’s Transitions
6. Easing Transitions into School from Social Excluded ‘Hard To Reach’ Families: From Risk and Resilience to Agency and Demand, Anne Edwards and Maria Evangelou
7 Relational Approaches to Supporting Transitions into School: Families and Early Childhood Educators Working Together in Regional Chile, Christine Woodrow and Kerry Staples
8. The Transition to of Roma Children into School: Working Relationally across Cultural Boundaries in Spain, José Luis Lalueza, Virginia Martínez-Lozano and Beatriz Macías-Gómez-Estern
9. Small Children’s Movements across Residential Care and Day-Care: How Professionals Build Common Knowledge and Practice That Matters for Children, Ida Schwartz
10. Helping Children in Cross-Cultural Post-Disaster Settings: Creating Relational Pathways to Resilience,Pernille Hansen
Part III: Supporting the Agency of Children and Young People in Transitions
11. When Young Adulthood Presents a Double Challenge: Mental Illness, Disconnected Activities, and Relational Agency, Sofie Pedersen
12. Children with Disabilities Growing Up and Becoming Adults: Socio-cultural Challenges around the Transition to Adulthood, Louise Bøttcher
13. Supporting the Transitions into Work of Autistic Young People: Building and Using Common Knowledge, Anne Edwards and Yvette Fay
Index
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)
Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Mariane Hedegaard is Professor Emerita of Developmental Psychology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Anne Edwards is Professor Emerita in the Department of Education at Oxford University, UK, where she was Director of the department and co-founder of the Oxford University Centre for Sociocultural and Activity Theory Research (OSAT).