REFORMULATIONS ARE NEEDED. The notions of intentionality and life-world have provided much inspiration for me and I find them extremely important. Thus when I experienced the formation of the group of silent girls, to which I referred in § 1, I felt strongly that in order to interpret this phenomenon it was important to pay attention to the students' intentions, and to how they might be withdrawn from the classroom activities. I found it important to consider how the silent girls experienced their school environment.