"The World Is Yours": Global Hip-Hop Pedagogies and Praxis in Schools and Communities

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium brings together a number of scholars, organizational leaders, practitioners and artists from inside and outside the United States to explore the transnational and international understandings and interpretations of Hip-Hop culture. Drawing on various theoretical, methodological, analytical standpoints, and community experiences, participants in this symposium will analyze the possibilities of Hip-Hop-Based-Education (HHBE) as an inclusive practice that can connect multiple educational stakeholders at the global level. As such, participants will discuss how this approach, explicitly committed to create inclusive and culturally relevant learning environments, can help reflect on global challenges of our time and inform audiences of the critical well-being of humanity.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Hip Hop Theories, Praxis & Pedagogies

Chair

• Valentina Migliarini, University of Birmingham

Papers

• "Writing Myself Alive": Transnational Feminist Community Project With Global Girls in New Jersey and Tanzania - Crystal Leigh Endsley Taylor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

• Toward Culturally Competent Counseling Environments: Hip-Hop Studio Construction - Ian Levy, Manhattan College; Edmund S Adjapong, Seton Hall University

• "I Am Hip-Hop": Intersectional Inclusion and the Future of Hip-Hop Pedagogies in Italian Public Schools - Valentina Migliarini, University of Birmingham; Angela M. Mosley, JustOne Solutions LLC.; Rovion Reed, Kinetic Vibez

• "Break Down for the Build Up": Deconstructing Trauma and Revealing Genius Through Hip-Hop Praxis - Tierney Truth Reed, Mother Nature, Inc; Shasta Klevah Mathews, Mothernature

Discussant

• Edmund S Adjapong, Seton Hall University