African American Males K–12 Teachers: Exploring Historical Relationships Between Hip-Hop Music and Classroom Culture

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session 12
  In Roundtable Session: Interrogating the Black Experience Through Hip-Hop

Abstract

This research is motivated by a desire to address the diminishing presence of African
American male teachers in urban schools and the significance of this proposed study is multifold. First, through an examination of the life histories of African American male teachers from the Hip Hop Generation and their pedagogical beliefs, this study sheds light on cultural contexts in which their experiences with Hip Hop culture, their motivations to teach, and their pedagogical approaches emerged. In doing so, this study seeks to expand upon the existing literature on
teacher beliefs, which all but excludes the ontologies, epistemologies, and pedagogies of African American male educators.

Authors

• Antonio Latrell Ellis, Radford University

• Malayka Neith Cornejo, University of Nevada - Las Vegas

• Eddie Vanderhorst, Capella University

• Chaz Gipson, Howard University