| Beats, Rhymes, and Classroom Life: Hip-Hop Pedagogy and the Politics of Identity Contributor(s): Hill, Marc Lamont (Author) |
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ISBN: 0807749613 ISBN-13: 9780807749616 Publisher: Teachers College Press OUR PRICE: $45.60 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2009 Annotation: Marc Lamont Hill shares his experience teaching a hip-hop centered English literature course in a Philadelphia high school where rap music, turntablism, breakdancing, graffiti culture, and other aspects of hip-hop were incorporated into the curriculum. Drawing on that experience and on his academic work on youth culture, identity, and educational processes, Hill offers a compelling case for the power of hip-hop, not just in driving up attendance and test performance, but in helping students forge their identities in an educational setting. For over a decade, educators have looked to capitalize on the appeal of hip-hop culture, sampling its language, techniques, and styles as a way of reaching out to students. But beyond a fashionable hipness, what does hip-hop have to offer our schools? Marc Lamont Hill shows, in this revelatory new book, it is the opportunity to affect students lives in extraordinary ways. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | History - Education | Multicultural Education - Education | Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects |
| Dewey: 370.917 |
| LCCN: 2008054819 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.2" W x 8.9" (0.88 lbs) 170 pages |
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| Publisher Description: For over a decade, educators have looked to capitalize on the appeal of hip-hop culture, sampling its language, techniques, and styles as a way of reaching out to students. But beyond a fashionable hipness, what does hip-hop have to offer our schools? In this revelatory new book, Marc Lamont Hill shows how a serious engagement with hip-hop culture can affect classroom life in extraordinary ways. Based on his experience teaching a hip-hop-centered English literature course in a Philadelphia high school, and drawing from a range of theories on youth culture, identity, and educational processes, Hill offers a compelling case for the power of hip-hop in the classroom. In addition to driving up attendance and test performance, Hill shows how hip-hop-based educational settings enable students and teachers to renegotiate their classroom identities in complex, contradictory, and often unpredictable ways. |