How can one best work for justice and empowerment in the ever-changing, real-life messy world of primary school classrooms? Written by a full-time teacher and an action-researcher, this book points out opportunities to work for fairness for all children and teachers.

Designed to help the reader develop strategies for observing and interpreting children's play activities, using case studies drawn from challenging classroom environments. The text aims to illustrate: what teachers can learn from observing children at play; how they can use play to gain insights into how children are interpreting the experiences offered to them in different areas of the curriculum; and that play need not be confined to the early years.