Supporting Difficult Transitions: Children, Young People and their Carers (Transitions in Childhood and Youth)

Supporting Difficult Transitions: Children, Young People and their Carers (Transitions in Childhood and Youth)

by Anne Edwards (Editor), Mariane Hedegaard (Editor)

Synopsis

The international contributors to Supporting Difficult Transitions discuss examples of transitions that are problematic for children, young people and their carers. Focusing on potentially vulnerable children, the transitions include: starting school, changing schools, starting work, entering a new culture or a culture that has been changed by a traumatic event. The book will be useful to practitioners involved in supporting children and their carers as they make these moves; students and course tutors in the caring professions; researchers; and policy makers and those who implement policy for children and young people. The different case examples are given coherence by drawing on cultural-historical approaches to how people move between practices. Particular attention is paid to how practitioners can build shared understandings of what matters for children and young people and for the institutions they are entering. These understandings become a resource to strengthen collaborations between practitioners or between practitioners and the children and their carers, as they support entry into new practices.

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 11 Jul 2019

ISBN 10: 1350052760
ISBN 13: 9781350052765
Book Overview: Provides international perspectives and research on a variety of transitions experienced by children, young people and their carers.

Author Bio
Mariane Hedegaard is Professor 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).