Drawing on grafitti art, Guerilla marketing, DJing, parenting, and the art of the battle to inform a Hip-Hop framework.

• In Event: Dreaming (A)loud for Liberation: Build With Hip-Hop Pioneers, Practitioners, and Scholars to Design a Hip-Hop Framework for Educational Research, Practice, and Assessment

Abstract

Is a guerilla marketer, writer, father, DJ, and SF-Bay Area native who takes inspiration from Emdin’s (2015) Reality Pedagogy and focuses on the notion of the battle as a way to deepen our understanding of a key Hip-Hop aesthetic. From a young age, this panelist was pilfering his musician-father’s record collection and reclaiming public space around the Bay through graffiti. He later honed these skills as a DJ, guerrilla marketer, and father, working in the industry and in the community. As a father, he sees the shape that education is taking around the U.S., especially in public schools located in low-income areas and in his son’s life in particular. Not only does he see this as problematic to his own child but to future generations to come. Consequently, he is committed to drawing on his own experiences with Hip-Hop culture to take action and build with other practitioners, scholars, and parents because he believes that Hip-Hop generations have the power and the ability to continue changing the way we conceptualize the challenges and possibilities in public education.

Author

• Jeramie Sharod Brown