About the editors.- About the authors.- Foreword; Wilfried Griebel.- Theorising Transitions: Shifts and Tensions; Sue Dockett, Anne Petriwskyj and Bob Perry .- Building on Bioecological Perspectives .- Reading of Media Accounts of Transition to School in Iceland; Jóhanna Einarsdóttir .- Thinking about Transitions - One Framework or Many? Populating the Theoretical Model over Time; Aline-Wendy Dunlop .- Multiple Influences on Children\'s Transition to School; Elizabeth Murray .- Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Influences on School Transition; Linda Harrison .- Transition and Adjustment to School; Kay Margetts .- Transitions and Emergent Writers; Noella Mackenzie .- Borderlands, Life Course and Rites of Passage .- Chasms, Bridges and Borderlands: A Transitions Research \'Across the Border\' from Early Childhood Education to School in New Zealand; Sally Peters .- Transition to School - A Rite of Passage in Life; Anders Garpelin .- A Sociocultural Approach to Children in the Transition from Home to Kindergarten; Mei Seung Lam .- Experienced and Recalled Transition. Starting School as Part of Life History; Tuija Turunen .- Critical Perspectives .- The Relation of Research on Readiness to Research/Practice of Transitions; Elizabeth Graue and June Reineke .- Social Justice Dimensions of Starting School; Bob Perry .- Transition to School: Normative or Relative?; Sue Dockett .- Critical Theory and Inclusive Transitions to School; Anne Petriwskyj .- Connecting Theory, Research, Policy and Practice .- Starting School: Synthesis and Analysis; Amy MacDonald, Wendy Goff, Kathryn Hopps, Cathy Kaplun and Susanne Rogers .- The Wollongong Transition to School Experience: A Big Step for Children, Families and the Community; Tracey Kirk-Downey and Shabnam Hinton .- Transitions, Inclusion and Information Technology; Bronwyn Glass and Margaret Cotman .- Building Connections around Transition: Partnerships and Resources for Inclusion; Marge Arnup .- Research to Policy: Transition to School Position Statement; Sue Dockett and Bob Perry .