Everybody Has a Story, VI

The ways and methods of the Freedom Writers as a pedagogical concept are not tied to theories but to practice and to practical life in the classroom. It therefore has more to do with tools than with books and the most significant tool in the Freedom Writer pedagogy is the narrative. But even in a very practical world tools can be reflected on and have to be reflected on in order to give us an idea about what is going on. So it is with narratives, too. Narratives are about lived lives, and a way to take or regain power over one's life. Therefore, the narrative is a pathway to empowerment. By writing, reading or listening to the narratives the story-teller will experience forms of recognition that foster in him or her a feeling of self-confidence, self-esteem and self-appreciation feeling that many have not been granted until now. This book is an account of a Freedom Writer-course, where practical writing- and art-exercises are 'warming up' the students making them confident with the situation, each other and the published media in order to write their own narrative.

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