Sue Dockett & Wilfried Griebel 
Families and Transition to School [PDF ebook] 

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 and Teachers 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.