Hip-Hop Education for Teachers' Professional Growth and Development

Session Type: Paper Session

Abstract

A significant amount of research regarding Hip-Hop Based Education (HHBE) fails to provide insight on how to incorporate elements of Hip Hop into daily teaching practices. This symposium brings together a number of scholars to discuss how Hip Hop can serve as a conduit to the professional development of pre- and in-service teachers. Presenters share how Hip Hop culture informs classroom and instruction practices, mentoring relationships, and teacher development. Using lenses such as culturally sustaining pedagogy (CSP), critical Hip Hop pedagogies(CHHP), and Hip Hop feminism, this session will share how teacher educators can increase the cultural competence of pre- and in-service teachers and the effectiveness of implementing Hip Hop pedagogical practices.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Hip Hop Theories, Praxis & Pedagogies

Chair

• Daren Graves, Simmons University

Papers

• Cultivating Student Voice, Spirit, and Activism Through Spoken Word - Camea Davis, Georgia State University; Moira E Pirsch

• Developing Preservice and In-Service Teachers' Critical Consciousness Through Hip-Hop in Teacher Preparation Programs - Edmund S Adjapong, Seton Hall University; Courtney Rose, Ivy Rose Consulting

• "Dis Generation": The Role of Hip-Hop Culture and Identity in the Teaching of Social Studies - Delandrea Hall, Georgia Southern University

• Hope Peddlers. The Politics of Respectability as Agnotology: Countering Respectability Politics Through MOBism and Black Male Authenticity - Ishman Anderson, San Francisco State University

• The Power of Possibilities: How Hip-Hop Lives in My Classroom - Dawn Nicole Hicks Tafari, Winston-Salem State University

Discussant

• Qiana M. Cutts, Mississippi State University