Constructing Appropriate Information in School Transition : Documents as Institutional Agents of Topicalising Children’s (In)Capabilities and Pedagogical Practices
Year of publication
2020
Authors
Heiskanen, Noora
Abstract
In this chapter, I investigate how school transition documentation, in addition to recording issues, also actively constructs ideas about the topical information, roles and responsibilities and, consequently, institutional reality in school transition. In a transition phase, documentation has a great potential serve as a tool for ensuring the continuity in pedagogical practices. However, documentation is often found to focus on illustrating subjectifying and problem-oriented pictures of children and their incapabilities instead of explicating pedagogical practices and professional responsibilities in transition. In this chapter, I utilise the discursive approach to analyse the ready-set transition document forms from two Finnish municipalities and filled school transition documents of 43 pre-primary aged children (N = 43). In Finnish regulations, it is stated that all the appropriate information needs to be transferred to school prior the transition. Consequently, I analyse what kind of understanding about this appropriate information municipal document forms and teachers’ writings reflect. In addition to investigating the contents, I analyse how the roles and responsibilities of children, parents, and teachers as well as pre-primary and primary school institutions are presented in relation to school transition. As a theoretical starting point, I apply documentality theory introduced by Ferraris.
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Publication format
Article
Parent publication type
Compendium
Article type
Other article
Audience
ScientificPeer-reviewed
Peer-ReviewedMINEDU's publication type classification code
A3 Book section, Chapters in research booksPublication channel information
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Parent publication editors
Alasuutari, Maarit; Kelle, Helga; Knauf, Helen
Publisher
Pages
79-101
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Publication forum level
1
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Open access in the publisher’s service
No
Self-archived
No
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Fields of science
Educational sciences
Keywords
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Publication country
Germany
Internationality of the publisher
International
Language
English
International co-publication
No
Co-publication with a company
No
DOI
10.1007/978-3-658-28193-9_5
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Yes