Transitions across schools and cultures
This volume focuses on the "Transitions" that take place at major points of potential discontinuity in students' developmental trajectories and across contexts at a given time point. The development literature, for example, has examined how children's motivation and achievement a...
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| Other Authors | , |
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| Format | Electronic eBook |
| Language | English |
| Published |
Bingley, U.K. :
Emerald,
2012.
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| Series | Advances in motivation and achievement ;
v. 17. |
| Subjects | |
| Online Access | Full text |
| ISBN | 9781781902929 |
| ISSN | 0749-7423 ; |
| DOI | 10.1108/S0749-7423(2012)17 |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (xiii, 284 p.) : ill. |
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Table of Contents:
- The transition to kindergarten : fostering connections for early school success / Jennifer LoCasale-Crouch ... [et al.]
- School transitions and African American youth / Beth Kurtz-Costes, Stephanie J. Rowley
- Pathways to college : Latino youth and the transition to higher education / Pamela E. Davis-Kean, Celeste M. Mendoza, Maria Ines Susperreguy
- Engagement and disengagement during critical transitions from school to work / Katariina Salmela-Aro
- Being the new kid : implications of within-year academic transitions for motivational development in school / Gwen C. Marchand, Kayana Sanders
- Risk and resilience in adolescents' transnational school transitions : academic motivation and psychological well-being / Revathy Kumar, Nancy Seay, Jeffrey H. Warnke
- To go or not to go : the decision to pursue higher education abroad / Fani Lauermann
- Studying 'a thousand miles away' : the motivational implications of cross-cultural transitions / Dennis M. McInerney, Ronnel B. King
- Cultural transitions in higher education : individual adaptation, transformation and engagement / Simone Volet, Cheryl Jones.