First Transitions to Early Childhood Education and Care

Part A: Setting the scene for the first transition: Contexts, theories and ideologies.- 1. The first transition to ECE: Contexts and culturally responsive methodologies for understanding; Jayne White & Helen Marwick.- 2. National policies and cultural issues related to infants' transition to ECEC; Katia S. Amorim, Sheena Elwick, Kathryn Hawkes, Laura Herold, Elise Hunkin, Eleni Karagiannidou, Shelley McNally, Niina Rutanen, Andrea P. Tame, Lucia M.S. Tinós, Fiona Westbrook, Jayne White.- 3. Orienting pedagogies for first transitions; Jayne White, Katia S. Amorim, Kathryn Hawkes, Laura Herold, Helen Marwick, Niina Rutanen, Nicki Shaw, Fiona Westbrook.- 4. Invisible indigenous perspectives on first transition; Kim Browne, Aleryk Fricker, Waveney Lord.- Part B: Living first transitions in practice.- 5. The emotions and expectations of first transitions: Parents and teachers; Jayne White, Katia Souza Amorim, Laura Herold, Eleni Karagiannidou, Helen Marwick, Niina Rutanen.-6. The role of the teacher in first transitions; Helen Marwick (lead), Katia S. Amorim, Kaisa Harju, Kathryn Hawkes, Waveney Lord, Bridgette Redder, Jayne White.- 7. Infant emotional experience of first transitions; Helen Marwick (lead), Katia Souza Amorim, Sheena Elwick, Laura Herold, Eleni Karagiannidou, Bridgette Redder, Jayne White.- 8. The social experience of first transitions: Infants and their peers; Katia Souza Amorim (lead), Marisa von Dentz, Sheena Elwick, Kathryn Hawkes, Helen Marwick, Bridgette Redder, Yaiza Lucas Revilla.- 9. Living the space in first transitions; Niina Rutanen (lead), Katia S. Amorim, Natalia M. S. Costa, Kaisa Harju, Raija Raittila, Yaiza Lucas Revilla.- 10. First transitions and time; Laura Herold, Katia Souza Amorim, Kaisa Harju, Eleni Karagiannidou, Helen Marwick, Raija Raittila, Yaiza Lucas Revilla, Niina Rutanen.- 11. The 'things' of first transitions; Laura Herold (lead), Sheena Elwick, Kathryn Hawkes, Wavenery Lord, Bridgette Redder, Fiona

E. Jayne White is Professor of ECE at University of Canterbury, Professor II at Western Norway University of Applied Sciencs and  Adjunct Professor at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. She specialises in early childhood education pedagogies - exploring possibilities  for teaching and learning inquiry through visual methodologies and technologies. As Editor-in-Chief of Video Journal of Education and Pedagogy, and President of Association for Visual Pedagogies, Jayne leads the development of visual pedagogies into research and publications around the world. Her special interest, and passion, lies in the area of infant and toddler learning within the new normalities of institutional (ECE) experiences, and what she describes as 'the work of the eye'. As Co-Editor of the Springer series she  pioneers the field of educational scholarship for children aged birth to three, and has contributed to two books in the series already. Jayne led the overarching ISSEET project that underpins this book. As well as conceptualising the project design and coordinating the international teams, she also led both the Aotearoa NZ and Australia research teams over the life of the project.





Helen Marwick is a Developmental Psychologist and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Education of the University of Strathclyde, Scotland. She holds an MA Hons from the University of Edinburgh (1977) and a PhD in Child Development from the University of Edinburgh (1987). She has researched extensively on social interactions, communicative development and interpersonal understanding, and is currently involved in research on intersubjectivity, conceptual development and relational identity. She has developed the 'Playboxes' approach, which promotes and assesses active interpersonal engagement, communication and imaginative pretense, and which is being used in educational settings both nationally and internationally. Dr Marwick