Localizing the Hip-Hop Community of Practice

• In Event: 46.085 - Roundtable Session 15
  In Roundtable Session: 46.085-23 - Teaching Civics in the Classroom and Community

Abstract

To understand hip hop culture as a hip-hop community of practice where the focus is on what community members “do”. That is, the ways in which a community of students, teachers, and caregivers create opportunities for teaching and learning through the communal practicing of hip hop pedagogy. To that end, we draw on the community of practice research of (Lave & Wenger, 1991; Wenger, 2000) to highlight three ethnographic case studies grounded in specific geographic locations – Bronx, NY; Atlanta, GA; and Blacksburg, VA – and the use of hip hop based pedagogies and artifacts to investigate the cognitive, personal, and social justice capacities of community members in the K-12 and post-secondary learning environment.

Authors

• Joycelyn Wilson, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

• Bettina L. Love, University of Georgia

• Christopher Emdin, Teachers College, Columbia University