Schooling Hip-Hop: Expanding Hip-Hop Based Education Across the Curriculum

by Marc Lamont Hill, Emery Petchauer

Overview

This book brings together veteran and emerging scholars from a variety of fields to chart new territory for hip-hop based education. Looking beyond rap music and the English language arts classroom, innovative chapters unpack the theory and practice of hip-hop based education in science, social studies, college composition, teacher education, and other fields. Authors consider not only the curricular aspects of hip-hop but also how its deeper aesthetics such as improvisational freestyling and competitive battling can shape teaching and learning in both secondary and higher education classrooms. Schooling Hip-Hop will spark new and creative uses of hip-hop culture in a variety of educational settings.

Contributors: Jacqueline Celemencki, Christopher Emdin, H. Bernard Hall, Decoteau J. Irby, Bronwen Low, Derek Pardue, James Braxton Peterson, David Stovall, Eloise Tan, and Joycelyn A. Wilson

“Hip hop has come of age on the broader social and cultural scene. However, it is still in its infancy in the academy and school classrooms. Hill and Petchauer have assembled a powerful group of scholars who provide elegantly theoretical and practically significant ways to consider hip hop as an important pedagogical strategy. This volume is a wonderful reminder that ‘Stakes is high!’”
—Gloria Ladson-Billings, Kellner Family Chair in Urban Education, University of Wisconsin–Madison

“This book is a bold, ambitious attempt to chart new intellectual, theoretical, and pedagogical directions for Hip-Hop Based Education. Hill and Petchauer are to be commended for pushing the envelope and stepping up to the challenge of taking HHBE to the next level.”
—Geneva Smitherman, University Distinguished Professor Emerita, English and African American and African Studies, Michigan State University

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807773567
Publisher:	Teachers College Press
Publication date:	09/30/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Marc Lamont Hill is an associate professor of English education at Teachers College, Columbia University, and the author of the award-winning Beats, Rhymes, and Classroom Life. He received the 2023 AERA Social Justice in Education Award. Emery Petchauer is an assistant professor of urban education in the Teacher Development and Educational Studies Department at Oakland University, and the author of Hip-Hop Culture in College Students’ Lives.

Table of Contents

Foreword Jeff Chang vii

Acknowledgments x

Introduction 1

Part I Aesthetics, Worldviews, and Pedagogies of Hip-Hop 9

1 The Rap Cypher, the Battle, and Reality Pedagogy: Developing Communication and Argumentation in Urban Science Education Christopher Emdin 11

2 "I Feel What He Was Doin'": Urban Teacher Development, Hip-Hop Aesthetics, and Justice-Oriented Teaching Emery Petchauer 28

3 Rewriting the Remix: College Composition and the Educational Elements of Hip-Hop James Braxton Peterson 47

4 The MC in Y-O-U: Leadership Pedagogy and Southern Hip-Hop in the HBCU Classroom Joycelyn A. Wilson 66

Part II Curricula, Courses, and Pedagogies with Hip-Hop 93

5 Fresh Faces, New Places: Moving Beyond Teacher-Researcher Perspectives in Hip-Hop Based Education Research Decoteau J. Irby H. Bernard Hall 95

6 The Limits of "Keepin' It Real": The Challenges for Critical Hip-Hop Pedagogies of Discourses of Authenticity Bronwen Low Eloise Tan Jacqueline Celemencki 118

7 Who Are We? Hip-Hoppers' Influence in the Brazilian Understanding of Citizenship and Education Derek Pardue 137

8 Hip-Hop and the New Response to Urban Renewal: Youth, Social Studies, and the Bridge to College David Stovall 155

About the Editors and Contributors 167

Index 169

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"Hill and Petchauer are to be commended for pushing the envelope and stepping up to the challenge of taking Hip-Hop Based Education to the next level."
—Geneva Smitherman, Michigan State University

“Hip-hop education offers the real possibility of exchange. And in exchange is the possibility of transformation. That is where the authors in this volume begin.” —From the Foreword by Jeff Chang, author of Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation, executive director, Institute for Diversity in the Arts, Stanford University

"Hip-hop has come of age on the broader social and cultural scene. However, it is still in its infancy in the academy and school classrooms. Hill and Petchauer have assembled a powerful group of scholars who provide elegantly theoretical and practically significant ways to consider hip-hop as an important pedagogical strategy. This volume is a wonderful reminder that 'stakes is high!'"
—Gloria Ladson-Billings, Kellner Family Professor in Urban Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison

"I believe that a book like this is incredibly important to the understanding and development of not only musical but cultural studies. Since hip-hop is truly a microcosm for so many other things in our world, the possibilities for creating a stream of thought that doesn't end in the marginalization and exploitation of the culture is a miracle alone. I hope this is just the beginning."
— Immortal Technique, hip-hop artist and producer