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Author: Greenwood, Andrew G × End date: 1989 × Start date: 1980 × Type: Masters Coursework thesis × Subject: Education, Secondary ×

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    Planning primary-secondary transition: the formulation from theories of needs-satisfaction of a set of principles to guide educational planners engaged in developing primary to secondary transition programmes
    Greenwood, Andrew G ( 1981)
    Over recent years, there has been increasing interest by practising teachers in designing programmes to aid pupils make a smooth transition from primary to secondary school; it has been realised that children frequently lose, rather quickly, any enthusiasm they have which has arisen in connection with the transfer from primary to secondary school. Programmes which have been designed by teachers have, for the most part, been developed in a piece-meal fashion to deal ad hoc with perceived problems. This paper reports a conjectural study which has been based on a review of related and pertinent literature dealing with transition. It has as its purpose the developing of a set of planning principles or recommendations to assist both primary and secondary schools to prepare children for transition and to assist them to deal more adequately with the problems and anxieties associated with transition from primary to secondary school. The children's anxieties at transition, which are referred to collectively as 'the transition problem', are discussed, and analysed in terms of the need for satisfaction of Maslow's hierarchy of needs. This having been done, it has then been possible to develop the planning principles using those principles which form part of the body of theory which is called job-satisfaction theory. The planning principles presented are an outgrowth of both observation and experience, with appropriate theoretical support, but, as a set of recommendations, have not been subjected to empirical testing. The scope of this work was to develop a set of principles for use by educational planners concerned with primary - secondary transition. It is up to those who follow to test them.