ABSTRACT
The school places that boys came to record and talk about had come to mean something to them based on the circumstances in which they encountered them, sought them out or needed them to function. The accounts reveal something about how boys see, think, feel and experience school places. The accounts have been edited and interwoven with the language of the researcher. Some readers might view these accounts as narrative ones, for they tell and disclose simultaneously aspects of boys' experience of inhabiting school space and making place while learning in the company of their own sex. When boys were invited to examine their experiences of being in school places, they were already in those places that positioned them as particular types of subjects—learners, performers, players, creators, inventors and makers. Finally, some of the accounts are presented as full-length individual narratives derived from conversations with individual boys.
