You Know How We Do It: Hip-Hop Pedagogy in the Classroom, Counseling, and Life

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Hip Hop pedagogy is guided by the premise that Hip Hop is the dominant language of Black and Brown youth culture, rendering its place in education as defiant, resistant, and responsive to inequities within mainstream schooling (Akom, 2009; Powell, 1992). The once-limited historical and descriptive use of Hip Hop within education has since expanded into different academic insights and inquiries that produce more equitable approaches and outcomes. This session brings together a Hip Hop pioneer and Hip Hop educators to discuss how Hip Hop is being used in educational theory and practice but also, where Hip Hop pedagogy has yet to go and who needs to be included in guiding it further to reach collective liberation.

Sub Unit

• Division C - Learning and Instruction / Division C - Section 1b: Humanities and Social Sciences

Cosponsor

• SIG-Hip Hop Theories, Praxis & Pedagogies

Chair

• Cindy Huynh, San Jose City College

Papers

• If "We" Ruled the World, Imagine That: The HEART of Ethnic Studies and Hip-Hop Pedagogy - Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales, San Francisco State University; Gabriel delaCruz, Stihl, Inc

• I've Got a Bird's-Eye View: Portraits of Asian American Women Educators Practicing Hip-Hop Pedagogy - Cindy Huynh, San Jose City College

• A People's Hip-Hop Scholar Bringing Critical Hope and Resistance Beyond Hip-Hop Scholarship - Kandi Custodio, Next Level

• The Beauty in the Struggle: How Hip-Hop Pedagogy Informs College Counseling Practices - Nathaniel Nevado, Skyline College

Discussant

• Michael J. Viola, Saint Mary's College of California