Reconceptualising System Transitions for Marginalised Groups

The European Journal of Education, Special Issue, Reconceptualising System Transitions in Education for Marginalised and Vulnerable Groups, Edited by Dr. Paul Downes, Associate Professor of Education, Director, Educational Disadvantage Centre, Institute of Education, DCU, Professor Erna Nairz-Wirth, Head of the Education Sciences Group, Vienna University for Economics and Business  and Professor Jim Anderson, Dept. of Language and Literacy Education, University of British Columbia, Canada has just been published:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14653435/2018/53/4

The special issue includes articles by:

- Professor Guofang Li, Canada Research Chair in Transnational/Global Perspectives of Language and Literacy Education of Children and Youth, University of British Columbia,

-Dr. Mariana Souto-Manning, Associate Professor of Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, USA

-Professor Diane Reay, University of Cambridge

- Dr. Charo Reyes Izquierdo & Professor Silvia Carrasco Pons, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona  

-Professor Maurice Crul, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the Erasmus University Rotterdam,

- Professor Donna Cross, Foundation Professor of Child and Adolescent Health, Edith Cowan University's Child Health Promotion Research Centre, Western Australia

Emphasising a critical and interdisciplinary approach to transitions internationally, the editorial and concluding articles to the special issue are as follows:

Downes, P., Nairz-Wirth E., Anderson, J. (2018). Editorial: Reconceptualising system transitions in education for marginalised and vulnerable groups. European Journal of Education, 53, 441-446.

Downes, P., Anderson, J., Nairz-Wirth E. (2018). Conclusion: Developing conceptual understandings of transitions and policy implications. European Journal of Education, 53, 541-556