ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a series of examples of the social status of particular children in each of the three classrooms. These examples illustrate the way in which various pupils were categorized and socially processed in the teacher's working contexts of the classroom. The first child, Michael, is an infant whose general persona to the teacher is that of a problem in many areas of significant activity in the classroom. Next the chapter illustrates the social position of a child whose identity changes in the classroom practice of the teacher. This example constitutes aspects of the normal pupil in the classroom. Glen is a child who occupies a very low position in the social structure of the classroom and who increasingly begins to acquire a hard identity of being peculiar. It is proposed now to turn to consider another child, Robert, who is similarly part of the bedrock of busyness but who differs in a number of respects from Glen.
