Identities in Transition: Anxiety and excitement in the move to secondary school

By H. Lucey, D. Reay. 2000

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Subfields: Education, Sociology and Political Science

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Constructing confidence and identities of belonging in mathematics at the transition to secondary school (2013, background): “In one study, many students were seen as looking forward to moving to secondary school with excited anticipation (Lucey & Reay, 2000), while in another, after transition, students had adjusted to changes within the first few months (Ward, 2000).”
Transitions into Higher Education: Gendered implications for academic self-concept (2003, background): “…to focus predominantly upon the effects of transfers within compulsory education (for example, Wigfield et al., 1991; Harter et al., 1992; Rogers et al., 1994; Galloway et al., 1998; Jackson & Warin, 2000; Lucey & Reay, 2000), with fewer studies focusing upon transitions into higher education.”
Students' views on their transition from school to college mathematics: rethinking ‘transition’ as an issue of identity (2011, background): “For example, Lucey and Reay (2000) describe the sense of excited anticipation of students in transition to secondary school, and Reay (2002) depicts a discourse of ‘growth’ from mature students on transition into higher education.”
A Challenge of Living? Understanding the Psycho-social Processes of the Child During Primary-secondary Transition Through Resilience and Self-esteem Theories (2008, background): “Research shows that children entering high school looked forward to having more choices and making new and more friends, but at the same time, they were concerned about being picked on and teased by older children, having harder work, getting lower grades, and getting lost in a larger, unfamiliar sc”
Primary–secondary transition: Differences between teachers’ and children’s perceptions (2011, background): “However, Lucey and Reay (2000) argued that it is difficult to separate children’s anxieties from those of the adults around them.”