ABSTRACT

The Freedom Writers project, which I examined in Chapter 3, this volume, can be seen as a best practice example of how crises in which marginalized students find themselves can be resolved by creating the means to transform at the same time as the students themselves and the broader societal-eco- nomical and ethical-political relations in which they participate. Dealing with the broader societal-economical and ethical-political contradictions that are reflected in the dramas of marginalized students cannot, however, take place within a single school project. Escaping marginalization and overcoming neoliberal socio-economic and ethical-political contradictions requires large-scale and long-term collective action, that is, a social move- ment, in the broadest sense of the word.