1 Children's Transitions in Everyday Life and Institutions: New Conceptions and Understandings of Transitions; Part 1 Societal Trajectories: Children's Life Courses; 2 Play and Life Competences as Core in Transition from Kindergarten to School: Tension Between Values in Early Childhood Education; 3 Becoming a Schoolchild: A Positive Developmental Crisis; 4 Children from Expatriate Families Moving Countries and Entering School Mid-semester: New Entrants Transitioning into Established Practices.

5 Transitioning from Play to Learning: Playfulness as a Resource in Children's Transition6 Negotiating the Demands and Motives in Primary School Transitions; Part 2 Transition Between Daily Practices and Everyday Activity Settings; 7 Children's Everyday Transitions: Children's Engagements across Life Contexts; 8 'A Darwinist at Our Dinner Table?': Discursive Transitions Between School and Home; 9 Children and Teachers Transitioning in Playworlds: The Contradictions Between Real Relations and Play Relations as a Source of Children's Development.

10 Transition Between Child-initiated Imaginative Play and Teacher-initiated Activity: An Analysis of Children's Motives and Teachers' Pedagogical Demands in a Preschool Context11 Moral Imagining Through Transitions Within, Between and From Imaginative Play: Changing Demands as Developmental Opportunities; Index.