Hip-Hop Pedagogy and Teacher Education for the Next 50 Years: Interrogating the Tensions in the Arcs and Trajectories of Hip-Hop

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium seeks to interrogate the tensions and opportunities associated with the intergenerational relationships educators and students have with Hip Hop, and how teacher educators seeking to employ Hip Hop pedagogy in their development of pre-service and in-service teachers should navigate these tensions and opportunities. Consisting of four papers from authors who have extensive experience at the intersection of Hip Hop education and teacher education, the symposium will offer these scholars opportunities to put their work in dialogue as they theorize what it could or should look like to train teachers in art of Hip Hop pedagogy as it enters its next 50 years.

Sub Unit

• Division K - Teaching and Teacher Education / Division K - Section 10: Inservice Teacher Education and Teacher Educator Development

Chairs

• Daren Graves, Simmons University

• Lauren Leigh Kelly, Rutgers University

Papers

• A Collection of “Field Notes” - David O. Stovall, University of Illinois at Chicago

• “How You Gon’ Win When You Ain’t Right Within?" Hip-Hop Pedagogy as Racial Healing - Jamila Lyiscott, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

• Hip-Hop Development Theory Within Hip-Hop Praxis Pedagogy - P. Thandi Hicks Harper, Youth Popular Culture Institute, Inc.

• “There’s Levels to This Shit!” Contributions, Additive, Transformative, and Social Action Approaches to Hip-Hop Content Integration - H. Bernard Hall, Drexel University