Bridging the Transition from Primary to Secondary School

Alan Howe, Val Richards

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN: 9780415575461
• eBook ISBN: 9781136738081
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

The transition from primary to secondary school can often be a difficult time for children, and managing the transition smoothly has posed a problem for teachers at both upper primary and lower secondary level. At a time when 'childhood' recedes and 'adulthood' beckons, the inequalities between individual children can widen, and meeting the needs of all children is a challenge.

Bridging the Transition from Primary to Secondary School offers an insight into children's development, building a framework for the creation of appropriate and relevant educational experiences of children between the ages of 10-12. Based on the five 'transition bridges' - administrative, social and personal, curriculum, pedagogy, and autonomy and managing learning - this book is a complete guide to the primary-secondary transition.

Chapters cover:

• A review of the issues and challenges of transition and school transfer;
• Management of physical, intellectual, social and emotional changes;
• Issues of changing self-identity;
• Approaches to ensure curriculum progression and continuity;
• Ways to develop cooperation between primary and secondary schools;
• Alternatives to traditional primary-secondary systems and pedagogy.

This book will be essential reading for all trainee teachers, undergraduate and postgraduate education students, and those working with children over the transition. The contributors offer a wealth of guidance and insight into meeting the educational and social needs of children through early adolescence.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of illustrations
• List of contributors
• List of abbreviations
• 1. Introduction
• 2. The emotional impact of transfer
• 3. Adolescent development
• 4. Adolescent development
• 5. Adolescent development
• 6. Smoothing the trajectory
• 7. Mathematics and transition
• 8. Children’s reading choices
• 9. The Fundamental Movement Skills programme (Steps PD)1
• 10. Becoming a global citizen
• 11. Managing learning
• 12. Managing primary–secondary transfer
• Index