ABSTRACT
This chapter takes a closer look at student participation in constructing classroom power relations. As they pursue their agenda of “having an interesting day,” and collaborate in the shared agenda of cooperation in learning, as they build new rooms in otherwise unoccupied areas of the imaginary building that represents power relations in their classrooms, as on occasion they attempt to build a new room in an area occupied, or potentially occupied, by an existing or planned teacher-built structure, students, like teachers, are continually engaged in creating the “What Teachers and Students Can Do Here” structure.
