Supporting Emotional Wellbeing During Primary-Secondary School Transitions

Charlotte Louise Bagnall is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester within Manchester’s Institute of Education.Divya Jindal‑Snape is Professor and Personal Chair of Education, Inclusion and Life Transitions in the School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law at the University of Dundee.

• 1. What are primary-secondary school transitions and what do I need to know? 2. Why are primary-secondary school transitions important? 3. What is emotional well-being and what do I need to know? 4. Why is it important to understand children’s emotional well-being during primary-secondary school transitions? 5. Why is child and parental involvement important during primary-secondary school transitions? 6. How can parents support their child with their primary-secondary school transitions? 7. What is the purpose of primary and/or secondary school-led transition practices and are they effective?

“By bringing together a range of understandings about transitions, focusing on the timing in life of the primary-secondary transitions and giving real-life examples, this book embraces parents and children, meeting an important gap in the transitions literature in dynamic ways.”Aline-Wendy Dunlop, Emeritus Professor, University of Strathclyde, UK“This book provides many important recommendations for action and adjustments from a systemic perspective for parents and other important caregivers of the children, presented in an easy-to-understand and theoretically sound manner.”Daniel Mays, Professor of Pedagogy, Institute for Special Education, University of Education Freiburg, Germany