Real Recognize Real: Authentically Created Hip-Hop Education (HHED) Curriculum

Session Type: Paper Session

Abstract

Though research has provided recommendations on effective practices to support and sustain Black students in schools, a gap remains between current school curricula and the academic achievement of African American students. In this symposium, presenters will share myriad experiences and classroom models to demonstrate authentically created Hip Hop Education Curriculum. Discussions will center how to incorporate creative elements of Hip Hop into the science classroom, literacy modules, in elementary and middle schools, and will explicitly share the voices of varied educational stakeholders. Presenters will discuss how Hip Hop strengthens students’ identity, provides valuable counter-narratives, deepens grade-level content, frames class discussions, and broadens students’ knowledge of Hip Hop culture.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Hip Hop Theories, Praxis & Pedagogies

Chair

• Stevie Darnell Johnson, Woody Guthrie Center / Bob Dylan Center

Papers

• Curriculum Development for Black Lives That Matter in the Literacy Classroom - Bianca J Nightengale-Lee, Florida Atlantic University

• #HiphopEd as a Democratic Digital Learning Space: A Cyber-Ethnography of an On/Offline Community - Christopher Emdin, Teachers College, Columbia University; Edmund S Adjapong, Seton Hall University; Ian Levy, Manhattan College; Timothy Jones

• Using Hip-Hop Pedagogy to Increase Engagement of Girls of Color in Science - Edmund S Adjapong, Seton Hall University; Christopher Emdin, Teachers College, Columbia University

• "Who Here Likes 2-Pack Shakur?" Flipping the Script Centering Hip-Hop in the Classroom - Brian Kayser, University of Virginia; Abigail Akosua Amoako Kayser, California State University - Fullerton

Discussant

• Christopher Emdin, Teachers College, Columbia University