Melbourne Education - Transitions in Early Childhood

Finland/Lapland Tuija Turunen		University of Lapland Faculty of Education PO Box 122 FI-96101 Rovaniemi FINLAND Telephone: +35 816 34122425 Email: tuija.turunen@ulapland.fi
Topics:		• day-care to pre-school • pre-school to primary school
Papers:		• Turunen, T. (2008). Lapsi ja lapsuus esiopetuksen opetussuunnitelmissa [Child and childhood in Finnish pre-school curricula]. Kasvatustieteen päivät. Turku. Finland. 27th -28th November. • Turunen, T. (2008). Images of transition. Transition through generations. Part of a self-oraganised poster symposium in EECERA conference: Reconsidering the basics in early childhood education. Stavanger, Norway. 3th -6th September • Turunen,T. & Fabian, H. (2006). How might the transition of 5-year-old children be supported by the curriculum: A comparative study between two schools in the UK and Finland . Poster presentation in EECERA conference: Democracy and Culture in Early Childhood. Reykjavik , Iceland . 30th August-2 nd September.
Hannele Karikoski		Department of Educational Sciences and Teacher Education University of Oulu P.O. Box 2000 Fin–90014 University of Oulu FINLAND Telephone: +35 ( 8) 553 4209 Email: hannele.karikoski@oulu.fi
Topics:		• pre-school to primary school
Papers:		• Karikoski, H. (2008). Starting School as an Ecological Transition: Parents as Informants in the Transit of Children from Pre-school to School Environments

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