Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction HILARY COOPER -- The Big Picture: what children told us about their work with trainee teachers HILARY COOPER -- Why children's perceptions? The context for the inquiry ROB HYLAND -- Drama: pupils' perceptions of the power game NIGEL TOYE -- Student teachers in the infant classroom: many hands make light work? SUZANNE LEA -- Geography: can't you tell us the answer Miss? NEIL SIMCO -- The properties that matter: children's perceptions of student teachers in science ANNE RIGGS AND AFTAB GUJRAL -- Technology: wheels within wheels MAUREEN HARRISON -- 1066 and all that!: pupil misconceptions in history MIKE MUGGINS -- Literacy activities: purposeful tasks or ways of keeping busy? SAM TWISELTON -- Mathematics: can trainees count? ROBIN FOSTER -- Art and design: a view from the classroom JILL PEMBERTON -- Music as you like it? KEVIN HAMEL -- Information and communication technology: who dares wins! LIZ ELLIOTT AND PETE SAUNDERS -- Physical education: challenging stereotypes JIM LAVIN -- 'Oh no not Jonah again!': is aversion to 'Bible story' inevitable? LORNA CROSSMAN -- 'Solicitous tenderness': discipline and responsibility in the classroom KATE JACQUES -- Please Sir! Yes Miss! OWAIN EVANS -- Miss, why are you brown?': some children's perceptions of black and Asian trainee teachers in 'all-white' schools CHARLES BATTESON -- Afterword MARION BLAKE AND FLORENCE SAMSON -- Index.