Families and Transition to School

1. Transition to School: A Family Affair; Sue Dockett, Wilfried Griebel and Bob Perry .- Section 1: Experiences and Expectations of Families as Children Start School .- 2. Transition to Being Parents of a School-Child: Parental Perspective on Coping of Parents and Child Nine Months after School Start; Wilfried Griebel, Andreas Wildgruber, Andrea Schuster and Julia Radan .- 3. Giving Voice to Families from Immigrant and Refugee Backgrounds during Transition to School; Katey De Gioia .- 4. Hope, Despair and Everything in Between - Parental Expectations of Educational Transition for Young Children with Intellectual Disability; Jenny Wilder and Anne Lillvist .- 5. "Everybody Has Got Their Own Story": Urban Aboriginal Families and the Transition to School; Cathy Kaplun, Rebekah Grace, Jenny Knight, Lynn Kemp, Jane Anderson, Natasha West, Holly Mack and Elizabeth Comino .- Section 2: Resources Families Bring to Transition to School .- 6. Primary School Choice and the 'Good' Mother: Balancing Complex Support Needs and Responsibility; Sue Dockett and Bob Perry .- 7. Connected Dynamics: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives on Family Life and the Transition to School; Dominik Krinninger and Marc Schulz .- 8. 'I Had a Grandfather Who Taught Me Everything': Grandparents as Family Capital in Transition to School; Tuija A. Turunen and Bob Perry .- 9. School Choice and Parent Involvement among Australian Children Starting School; Graham Daniel, Cen Wang, Elizabeth Murray and Linda J. Harrison .- Section 3: Parent and System Perspectives on Transition to School .- 10. Parents' Emotional and Academic Attitudes towards Children's Transition to Preschool Class - Dimensions of School Readiness and Continuity; Helena Ackesjö .- 11. Transition to School from the Perspective of the Girls' and Boys' Parents; Anna Kienig .- 12. Are We All Talking the Same Language? Parents, Practitioners andTeachers Preparing Children to Start School; Karen Wickett .- Section 4: Relationships and Collaboration .- 13. Preparing to Start School: Parent and Early Childhood Educator Narratives; Joanne S. Lehrer, Nathalie Bigras and Isabelle Laurin .- 14. Partnering in the Periphery; Wendy Goff .- 15. The Transition to Primary School as a Challenge for Parents; Petra Hanke, Johanna Backhaus, Andrea Bogatz and Majdah Dogan .- 16. Partnerships or Relationships: The Perspectives of Families and Educators; Susanne Rogers, Sue Dockett, and Bob Perry .- 17. Families and Transition: Transition and Families; Sue Dockett.