ABSTRACT
This chapter explores social relations and friendships in the context of how peers collaborate and negotiate their intentions during everyday moments while participating in playful episodes in the school setting. The cultural-historical theoretical concepts explored in this chapter are motives, demands and moral imagination. Examples are drawn from visual narratives of children attending schools located in Mexico. Three visual narratives are analysed to explore specific activities that the children initiated when playing together, such as helping each other. The findings indicate that the children collaborated and participated in different forms of exploration while interacting. This included being inclusive and integrating others into a group, and displaying shared motives while playing. Further, the children both included others and self-excluded by withdrawing themselves from games. This chapter extends the concept of moral imagination through extending collaborative initiatives as children enquire about their immediate unknowable and unexpected imagined futures.
