num_pages: 232
description: A New York Times Best SellerEssential reading for all adults who work with black and brown young people...Filled with exceptional intellectual sophistication and necessary wisdom for the future of education.Imani Perry author of Prophets of the Politics and Poetics in Hip-HopAn award-winning educator offers a much-needed antidote to traditional top-down pedagogy and promises to radically reframe the landscape of urban education for the betterDrawing on his own experience of feeling undervalued and invisible in classrooms as a young man of color Dr. Christopher Emdin has merged his experiences with more than a decade of teaching and researching in urban America. He takes to task the perception of urban youth of color as unteachable and he challenges educators to embrace and respect each students culture and to reimagine the classroom as a site where roles are reversed and students become the experts in their own learning.Putting forth his theory of Reality Pedagogy Emdin provides practical tools to unleash the brilliance and eagerness of youth and educators alikeboth of whom have been typecast and stymied by outdated modes of thinking about urban education. With this fresh and engaging new pedagogical vision Emdin demonstrates the importance of creating a family structure and building communities within the classroom using culturally relevant strategies like hip-hop music and call-and-response and connecting the experiences of urban youth to indigenous populations globally.Merging real stories with theory research and practice Emdin demonstrates how by implementing the Seven Cs of reality pedagogy in their own classrooms urban youth of color benefit from truly transformative education.
language: English
title: For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y'all Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education
publisher: Beacon Press