Transitions for Young Children
Creating Connections Across Early Childhood Systems

Edited by Sharon Lynn Kagan, Ed.D., & Kate Tarrant, M.P.A.

In this edited volume, Transitions for Young Children: Creating Connections Across Early Childhood Systems, we offer a new conceptual framework for understanding transitions—one that will serve as a platform for practitioners and policy makers to establish a broader vision of continuity for young children and their families across the globe.  We suggest that pedagogical, programmatic, and policy efforts must be pursued in concert to create a culture of continuity for young children and their families.  Each prong, as if a leg on a stool, carries an equal weight in fostering transitions. Indeed, any one prong can be considered necessary, but remains insufficient on its own to create this culture of continuity.

With contributions from many of the nation’s leading thinkers, the volume applies both a domestic and international lens to understanding the three-pronged framework to transitions and alignment.  We integrate case studies that exemplify transitions work with pedagogical, programmatic, and policy efforts taking place across the United States, as well as existing efforts from developed and developing countries.  In so doing, we provide real-world tangible examples of our conceptual framework and we suggest that this new way of thinking about transitions can and should transcend borders.

Contributing experts include:

• Sue Bredekamp
• Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
• Mary Beth Bruder
• Carol Brunson Day
• Richard Clifford
• Eugene E. Garcia
• Robert C. Pianta
• Craig T. Ramey
• Sharon Landesman Ramey
• Sharon Ritchie
• Sue Russell
• Tom Schultz
• Catherine Scott-Little
• and more.

View book prospectus:  Creating Continuity: A New Framework for Transitions and Alignment in the Early Years

View information about the book on the Brookes Publishing Website.

ORDERING INFO
ISBN 978-1-59857-083-0
Paperback
approx. 352 pages / 7 x 10
September 2010 / $39.95
Stock# 70830