Toward the Preparation of the Critical Hip-Hop Educator

• In Event: 25.083 - MTCC Roundtable Session Eight
  In Roundtable Session: 25.083-7 - "We Are the Next Generation": Preparing to Lead Through Hip-Hop

Abstract

Research shedding light on the ways in which hip-hop can serve as a conduit to the development of an action- and social-justice-oriented critical consciousness have become prevalent among other critical and culturally relevant pedagogical approaches. However, the majority of the trainings that of prepare teachers to enact critical hip-hop pedagogies (CHHP) are situated outside of formal university-based teacher education programs, and questions remain as to how to best prepare educators to utilize hip-hop cultural practices, artifacts and aesthetics towards critical educational ends. Framed by tenets and elements of CHHP and Bourdieu’s conceptualization of cultural capital this paper examines various hip-hop pedagogical practices taught and processes of teaching and learning occurring in one university-based hip-hop teacher education course.

Authors

• Edmund S Adjapong, Seton Hall University

• Courtney Rose, Ivy Rose Consulting