Teaching for Liberation: On Freedom Dreaming in the Field of Hip-Hop Education

ISBN-13: 9781636673691 / Angielski

Christopher Emdin; Edmund Adjapong; Edmund Adjapong

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In celebration of hip-hop's 50th anniversary, the authors interviewed scholars and community-engaged educators who have contributed to the field of hip-hop and education with the goal of reflecting on established research and activism within the field of hip-hop and education.

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Forward Yolanda Sealy-Ruiz
Introduction:
Freedom Dreaming in the Field of Hip-Hop Education - Conversations on Keeping Real Framework
- Overview of the field of Hip-Hop & Education
- Freedom Dreaming in Hip-Hop & Education
1 Centering Youth Culture in Hip-Hop Education: Keeping It Real with Gloria Ladson-Billings - Educators decentering themselves
- Centering youth voices and highlighting youth culture
- Educators as life long learners
2 Intentional Centering of Hip-Hop Within and beyond Educational Spaces: Keeping It Real with Thandi Hicks Harper - Hip-Hop having a seat at the table
- Hip-Hop as youth development
o A.K.U.V.A Framework
3 Interrogating Anti-Blackness in Relationship to Hip-Hop: Keeping It Real with Ian Levy - Hip-Hop as social-emotional health
- Influence of whiteness in Hip-Hop
- Hip-Hop and anti-blackness
4 Towards a Critical Centering of Youth Perspectives on Hip-Hop Education: Keeping It Real with David Stovall - Educators decentering themselves
- Centering youth voices
- Social Justice and Hip-Hop
- Misappropriation of Hip-Hop
- Positionality of Hip-Hop educators
5 Cultivating Intersectional Perspectives of Hip-Hop Education: Keeping It Real with Marcella Runell Hall - Racialized labor burden of Hip-Hop scholarship and praxis
- Anti-Black violence in education
- Misappropriation of Hip-Hop
- Misogyny and patriarchy in Hip-Hop
6 On youth-centered hip-hop pedagogies and praxis: Keeping It Real with Lauren Kelly - Practical applications of Hip-Hop education
- Youth center approaches to Hip-Hop in education
- Trust in youth to lead Hip-Hop engaged work
7 On Authenticity from a Student and Teacher Perspective:
Keeping It Real with Victoria Richardson - Student-centered perspective on Hip-Hop and education
- Authenticity in Hip-Hop and education praxis
8 The power of Hip-Hop as a tool: Keeping it Real with Christopher Emdin - Critical Hip-Hop engaged scholarship and praxis
- Hip-hop as a tool
- Hip-Hop culture as empirical validation
9 Towards Realizing Freedom Dreams: Reflections and Next Steps
- Final reflections
- Next Steps for educators and scholars

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Dr. Edmund Adjapong, is an associate professor in the Educational Studies Department at Seton Hall University. Dr. Adjapong is a STEM and Urban Education advocate whose work and research address issues of race, class, inequities in education, and misperceptions of urban youth. His current focus is on how to incorporate youth culture into educational spaces, specifically on utilizing hip-hop culture and sensibilities as an approach to teaching and learning.

Dr. Kelly Allen is an Assistant Professor of Curriculum Studies in the College of Education and Human Development at Augusta University. Dr. Allen's work and research is interested in the disruption of racism and inequities in education. Currently, her work examines the intersection of culture, race, curriculum, and pedagogy, especially in the implementation of hip-hop education.