Category: Social Transitions
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By Tanka Dahal It was the early days of the pandemic when the COVID-19 was taking its flight from Wuhan, China, and was landing at various destinations across the world. Where COVID-19 landed it upset the…
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By Catherine Koini Last week we welcomed a Ukrainian refugee family into our home in Belgium. A young mother, father and 3 month old baby daughter. Upon hearing the first missile at 4am on 24th…
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By Elizabeth F. S. Hannah The past 2 years have been challenging as we have experienced periods of uncertainty in due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. In Blog 16. Wellbeing during COVID-19 lockdown: Meeting psychological needs (June…
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By Divya Jindal-Snape Our research suggests that certain dispositions and environmental dimensions can lead to successful educational and life transitions (Glazzard et al., 2020; Gordon et al., 2019; Jindal-Snape et al. 2020, 2021; Jindal-Snape &…
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By Dr Kieran Hodgkin and Dr Samantha Shields Setting the context For students, the transition into Higher Education (HE) has long been an area of concern. Early transitional work explored academic and social integration as the…
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By Colette Moran It is indisputable that the Covid-19 school closures and subsequent lockdowns have had a significant impact on young people in Ireland. Children have missed many significant milestones including communions, confirmations and graduations.…
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Transitions to Further Education: Crossing the FE bridge By Rhiannon Packer and Amanda Thomas Introduction Transition is a complex process and the process of transition to any educational setting involves a number of stakeholders. The move…
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By Ben Broadhurst I am Ben Broadhurst, 20 years old and I am currently studying at Edge Hill University and in my second year of Primary Education with QTS. I grew up in Liverpool and attended…
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By Beth Hannah and Judith Sixsmith Many academics are under increasing stress in their academic role. Research has suggested that increases in stress are linked to teaching more students, less time to spend with students, heavy…
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By Beth Hannah and Judith Sixsmith Many academics are under increasing stress in their academic role. Research has suggested that increases in stress are linked to teaching more students, less time to spend with students, heavy…
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By Divya Jindal-Snape In this video you can hear about my conceptualisation of transitions, our latest primary-secondary transitions research and an explanation of my Multiple and Multi-dimensional Transitions Theory. Some references https://bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/rev3.3197https://bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/berj.3561 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10648-008-9074-7 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1365480207086750 https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780203859124https://www.macmillanihe.com/page/detail/a-z-of-transitions-divya-jindal-snape/?sf1=barcode&st1=9781137528261 https://bmcpalliatcare.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12904-019-0414-9…
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By Moira Leslie Living in an Armed Forces family very often entails high levels of mobility with frequent moves of home, school and sometimes even different countries. One parent’ s work related transitions trigger multiple transitions…
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By Moira Leslie Living in an Armed Forces family very often entails high levels of mobility with frequent moves of home, school and sometimes even different countries. One parent’ s work related transitions trigger multiple transitions…
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By Divya Jindal-Snape As Scotland prepares the route map for coming out of lockdown, the First Minister, highlighted the importance of prioritising those children and young people’s return to school who are to transition to primary…
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By Divya Jindal-Snape As Scotland prepares the route map for coming out of lockdown, the First Minister, highlighted the importance of prioritising those children and young people’s return to school who are to transition to primary…
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By Marion Burns This blog considers some of the concerns I have around facilitating children’s transition from their homes to early learning and childcare settings and schools now that the Scottish Government have published their route…
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By Marion Burns This blog considers some of the concerns I have around facilitating children’s transition from their homes to early learning and childcare settings and schools now that the Scottish Government have published their route…