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This second volume in the Hip-Hop Education series highlights knowledge of self as the fifth and often forgotten element of hip-hop. In many cases, a connection to hip-hop culture is one that has been well embedded in the identity of hip-hop educators. Historically, academic spaces have had misperceptions and misunderstand the authentic culture of hip-hop, often forcing hip-hop educators to abandon their authentic hip-hop selves to align themselves to the traditions of academia. This edited series highlights the realities of hip-hop educators who grapple with cultivating and displaying themselves authentically in practice and offers examples of how hip-hop can be utilized in educational spaces to promote social justice. It provides narratives of graduate students, practitioners, junior and senior scholars who all identify as part of hip-hop. The chapters in this text explore the intersections of the authors' lived experiences, hip-hop, theory, praxis and social justice.
List of contents
Edmund Adjapong/Ian Levy: Introduction: Authenticity and Knowledge of Self for the #HipHopEducator - Part I: Hip-Hop as Practice - Edmund Adjapong: Hip-Hop as Practice and Beyond - Crystal Leigh Endsley: "I am Both, Yet I am Neither": Exploring the Fifth Element of Hip-Hop as Spiritual Social Justice Praxis through Spoken Word Poetry - Anthony Broughton: Waiting on "My Song" in Early Childhood: Exploring Hip Hop Play in Preschool and Kindergarten - Ian D.Zamora/Daniel J.Cardenas/Caz J.Salamanca: "Can I Kick It? Yes You Can!": Imagining Hip-Hop Cultural Centers on College/University Campuses - Marti Cason/AV the Great: Creating a Shared Energy through Hip-Hop to Advance the Pedagogy of Math Pre-Service Educators - P.Thandi Hicks Harper/Asari Offiong: Hip-Hop Development: The Roots 4 Positive Youth Development and Engagement in Education and Health Prevention - Part II: Hip-Hop Education as/for Social Justice - Ian Levy: Decolonizing Traditional Education Spaces: A #HipHopEd(ucators) Guide - Toby S.Jenkins: Imagination, Power & Brilliance: Hip-Hop Mindfulness as a Politic of Educational Survival - Bianca Nightengale-Lee/Nyree Clayton-Taylor: Rapping, Recording & Performing: Amplifying Student Voice to Reclaim a Community - Noah Karvelis: A Hip-Hop Pedagogy of Action: Embracing #BlackLivesMatter and the Teacher Strikes as Pedagogical Frameworks - Aysha Upchurch: Peace, Love, Unity and Having Conscious Fun: Hip Hop Dance Education Can Move with Swag and Consciousness - Contributors.
About the author
Edmund Adjapong is an assistant professor in the Educational Studies Department at Seton Hall University. He is also a faculty fellow at The Institute for Urban and Multicultural Education at Teachers College, Columbia University and author of #HipHopEd: The Compilation on Hip-Hop Education Volume 1.¿
Ian Levy, a NYC native, is an assistant professor of school counseling at Manhattan College and a former high school counselor in the South Bronx. Levy¿s research explores the school counselor¿s use of emotionally themed mixtape writing, recording, and performing as a small-group counseling intervention.
Summary
Hip-HopEd: The Compilation on Hip-Hop Education highlights the realities of hip-hop educators who grapple with cultivating and displaying themselves authentically in practice.
