num_pages: 192
description: This book brings together veteran and emerging scholars from a variety of fields to chart new territory for hip-hop based education. Looking beyond rap music and the English language arts classroom innovative chapters unpack the theory and practice of hip-hop based education in science social studies college composition teacher education and other fields. Authors consider not only the curricular aspects of hip-hop but also how its deeper aesthetics such as improvisational freestyling and competitive battling can shape teaching and learning in both secondary and higher education classrooms. Schooling Hip-Hop will spark new and creative uses of hip-hop culture in a variety of educational settings. Hill and Petchauer are to be commended for pushing the envelope and stepping up to the challenge of taking Hip-Hop Based Education to the next level. Geneva Smitherman  Michigan State UniversityHip-hop education offers the real possibility of exchange. And in exchange is the possibility of transformation. That is where the authors in this volume begin. From the Foreword by Jeff Chang author of Cant Stop Wont A History of the Hip-Hop Generation  executive director Institute for Diversity in the Arts Stanford UniversityHip-hop has come of age on the broader social and cultural scene. However it is still in its infancy in the academy and school classrooms. Hill and Petchauer have assembled a powerful group of scholars who provide elegantly theoretical and practically significant ways to consider hip-hop as an important pedagogical strategy. This volume is a wonderful reminder that 'stakes is high!' Gloria Ladson-Billings Kellner Family Professor in Urban Education University of Wisconsin-Madison
language: English
title: Schooling Hip-Hop: Expanding Hip-Hop Based Education Across the Curriculum
publisher: Teachers College Press