Slam school
Subtitle: learning through conflict in the hip-hop and spoken word classroom
By: Bronwen E. Low
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9780804763653; 9780804763660
Subjects: Study and teaching (Secondary); Language arts (Secondary); Influence; Critical pedagogy; Secondary Education; Intergroup relations; Performance poetry; Curricula; Educational anthropology; Multicultural education; Hip-hop
Description: Takes the reader into the heart of a poetry course in an urban high school to make the case for critical hip-hop pedagogies. Pairing rap music with its less controversial cousins, spoken word and slam poetry, this course honored and extended student interests. It also confronted the barriers of race, class, gender, and generation that can separate white teachers from classrooms of predominantly black and Latino students and students from each other. Argues that the very reasons teachers might resist the introduction of hip-hop into the planned curriculum are what make hip-hop so pedagogically vital. Reveals a student-centered pedagogy based on spoken word curriculum that is willing to tolerate conflict, as well as ambivalence, having the potential to air tensions and lead to new insights and understandings for both teachers and students. From publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-177) and index.
Table of contents: title: Toward a critical hip-hop and spoken word pedagogy; title: "Keepin' it real" : the discourse of authenticity and the challenge for hip-hop pedagogies; title: The tale of the talent night rap : black popular culture in schools and the challenge of interpretation; title: Making sense out of worlds that are different : race and hip-hop pedagogies; title: Niggaz, bitches, and hoes : hip-hop nation language as limit-case for education; title: Pedagogic futures for hip-hop and spoken word.