ABSTRACT
This chapter summarizes the book's analytical findings and interpretations while also offering practical recommendations regarding schooling for youth placed in institutions. The summary includes the accounts of setbacks and successes that teachers and students invoked in the field study, which were often linked together like chains or embedded within one another. It also revisits the book's argument that school motivation could emerge in pockets of personifying interactions, even as the institution itself primarily sought to dismantle students-as-persons or categorize them. In this book, school motivation has been analyzed as a vocabulary of persons, one that could be cultivated and strengthened when teachers and students took the individual student's self and will as their starting point. The chapter's practical recommendations emphasize the importance of making institutions explicitly educational, challenging established accounts of failure while leveraging those of success, avoiding the postponement or cancellation of schoolwork, prioritizing direct interaction between teachers and students, safeguarding personifying interactions within the institutions, and fostering school motivation as a socially constructed phenomenon rather than assuming it to be purely intrinsic or essential.
