Trace in ECEC - Tracing children’s socio-spatial relations and lived experiences in early childhood education transitions

This project will scrutinize diverse transitions in early childhood education as critical processes for forming and restructuring children’s socio-spatial relations and lived experiences. We will follow children’s diverse paths from home to ECEC and from groups/settings to another, covering also the transition to pre-primary education at the age of six. With case analyses, the aim is to map diverse institutional transitions that children encounter in ECEC, and to explore children’s experiences in these transitions focusing on the constitution, restructuring and changes (such as continuities and dis/continuities) in children’s socio-spatial relations. 

The project is divided to three tasks:

Task I First transition to ECEC 

Task II Transitions during ECEC years 

Task III Transition from ECEC to pre-primary education (at the age of six) 

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The project includes collaboration with teams from

• University of Canterbury, New Zealand; Professor Jayne White (lead researcher)
• University of Strathclyde, School of Education, Scotland, Lecturer Helen Marwick (lead researcher)
• Brazilian Research Centre on Human Development and Early Child Education -CINDEDI, University of São Paulo, Brazil. Professor Katia de Souza Amorim and Professor Emerita Clotilde Rossetti-Ferreira (leaders of the country team)
• University of Arkansas, School of Human Environmental Sciences, USA. Associate Professor Laura Herold.