‘I Want to Play When I Go to School’: Children's Views on the Transition to School from Kindergarten

2010 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 134-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moska Mirkhil
Keyword(s):  
Transition To School ◽  
Children’S Views

Children’s drawings speak a thousand words in their transition to school

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 392-407
Author(s):  
Catherine Kaplun
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Social Constructivist ◽  
Children's Drawings ◽  
Transition To School ◽  
School Life ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
Children’S Drawings ◽  
Important Time ◽  
Children’S Views

Children’s views have often been supplementary to those of adults in research on children’s lives. With growing awareness of the Rights of the Child, children are being engaged as experts in their own lives, that is, young people who have valid perspectives on the things that matter and are important to them. In this study, a draw–write–tell activity was used to capture children’s understandings of transition to school. A Vygotskian view of drawing was adopted, with drawing used as a mediating tool for children to make meaning of experiences and thoughts and express these to others. Children’s drawings and explanatory narratives were thematically analysed in a social constructivist paradigm. Children shared their friendships and feelings about aspects of school and home, and their growing awareness of school life. Drawings were supported as a useful tool for understanding children’s views of transition to school and capturing changes in their feelings, knowledge and independence at this important time.

Moving to paradise for the children’s sake

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mari Korpela
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Moral Panic ◽  
Careful Attention ◽  
Lifestyle Choice ◽  
Transnational Mobility ◽  
Children’S Views

Increasing numbers of “Western” families spend several months a year in Goa, India, and the rest of the time in the parents’ passport countries or elsewhere. These “lifestyle migrants” are motivated by a search for “a better quality of life”, and the parents often claim that an important reason for their lifestyle choice is that it is better for the children to be in Goa, where they have enriching experiences and enjoy playing freely outdoors, in a natural environment. This article discusses parents’ and children’s views of this lifestyle. It argues that although the lifestyle sometimes causes moral panic among outsider adults who see regular transnational mobility as a sign of instability, a closer look reveals that there are various aspects of stability in the children’s lives. Paying careful attention to the parents’ and children’s own accounts, and the empirical realities of their lives, enables us to reach beyond normative judgements.

Rural Children's Views on Human Activities and Changes in a Greek Wetland

2009 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 339-352 ◽  
Author(s):  
Konstantinos J. Korfiatis ◽  
Tasos Hovardas ◽  
Elisavet Tsaliki ◽  
Joy A. Palmer
Keyword(s):  
Human Activities ◽  
Children’S Views
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