Full Description
The international contributors to Supporting Difficult Transitions discuss examples of transitions that are problematic for children, young people and their carers. Focusing on vulnerable children and young people, the transitions include: starting school, changing schools, starting work, entering a new culture or a culture that has been changed to focusing on vulnerable children and young people. 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.
Contents
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
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