Andrew Pollard University of the West of England at Bristol.

• Introduction: New Perspectives on Children 1 Childcare Ideologies and Resistance: The Manipulative Strategies of Pre-school Children2 The Intellectual Search of Young Children 3 The Accomplishment of Genderedness in Pre-school Children 4 The Time of Their Lives: Bureaucracy and the Nursery School 5 Making Sense of School 6 Letting Them Get On With It: A Study of Unsupervised Group Talk in an Infant School 7 Becoming a Junior: Pupil Development Following Transfer From Infants 8 Child in Control: Towards an Interpretive Model of Teaching and Learning 9 Classroom Task Organization and Children’s Friendships 10 The Culture of the Primary School Playground 11 Goodies, Jokers and Gangs 12 Child Culture at School: A Clash Between Gendered Worlds? 13 Stories Children Tell 14 Towards an Anti-racist Initiative in the All White Primary School: A Case Study 15 Anxieties and Anticipations-Pupils’ Views of Transfer 236 to Secondary School

Andrew Pollard University of the West of England at Bristol.

• Introduction: New Perspectives on Children 1 Childcare Ideologies and Resistance: The Manipulative Strategies of Pre-school Children2 The Intellectual Search of Young Children 3 The Accomplishment of Genderedness in Pre-school Children 4 The Time of Their Lives: Bureaucracy and the Nursery School 5 Making Sense of School 6 Letting Them Get On With It: A Study of Unsupervised Group Talk in an Infant School 7 Becoming a Junior: Pupil Development Following Transfer From Infants 8 Child in Control: Towards an Interpretive Model of Teaching and Learning 9 Classroom Task Organization and Children’s Friendships 10 The Culture of the Primary School Playground 11 Goodies, Jokers and Gangs 12 Child Culture at School: A Clash Between Gendered Worlds? 13 Stories Children Tell 14 Towards an Anti-racist Initiative in the All White Primary School: A Case Study 15 Anxieties and Anticipations-Pupils’ Views of Transfer 236 to Secondary School

Andrew Pollard University of the West of England at Bristol.

• Introduction: New Perspectives on Children 1 Childcare Ideologies and Resistance: The Manipulative Strategies of Pre-school Children2 The Intellectual Search of Young Children 3 The Accomplishment of Genderedness in Pre-school Children 4 The Time of Their Lives: Bureaucracy and the Nursery School 5 Making Sense of School 6 Letting Them Get On With It: A Study of Unsupervised Group Talk in an Infant School 7 Becoming a Junior: Pupil Development Following Transfer From Infants 8 Child in Control: Towards an Interpretive Model of Teaching and Learning 9 Classroom Task Organization and Children’s Friendships 10 The Culture of the Primary School Playground 11 Goodies, Jokers and Gangs 12 Child Culture at School: A Clash Between Gendered Worlds? 13 Stories Children Tell 14 Towards an Anti-racist Initiative in the All White Primary School: A Case Study 15 Anxieties and Anticipations-Pupils’ Views of Transfer 236 to Secondary School