Beats, Rhymes, and Classroom Life: Hip-Hop Pedagogy and the Politicsof Identity

"Discusses the importance of identity to students, and examines the potential effects of introducing elements from the hip-hop culture in the classroom, and covers hip-hop text and context, narratives, memory, and more."
"Discusses the importance of identity to students, and examines the potential effects of introducing elements from the hip-hop culture in the classroom, and covers hip-hop text and context, narratives, memory, and more."@en
"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. [Foreword by Gloria Ladson-Billings.]."@en

"Beats, Rhymes, and Classroom Life: Hip-Hop Pedagogy and the Politicsof Identity"@en
"Beats, rhymes, and classroom life hip-hop pedagogy and the politics of identity"@en
"Beats, rhymes, and classroom life : hip-hop pedagogy and the politics of identity"
"Beats, rhymes, and classroom life : hip-hop, pedagogy, and the politics of identity"