Starting school: Effective transitions

Early Childhood Research and Practice

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2001, Pages

  Dockett, Sue ^a,b,c   Perry, Bob ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b University of Western Sydney ^*  (Australia)

^c Starting School Research Project   (Australia)

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