Research Catalog

Title

For White folks who teach in the hood ... and the rest of y'all too : reality pedagogy and urban education / Christopher Emdin.

Author

Emdin, Christopher

Publication

Boston : Beacon Press, [2016]

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Details

Description

ix, 220 pages; 23 cm

Summary

• "Merging real stories with theory, research, and practice, a prominent scholar offers a new approach to teaching and learning for every stakeholder in urban education. Drawing on his own experience of feeling undervalued and invisible in science classrooms as a young man of color, Christopher Emdin offers a new lens on and approach to teaching in urban schools. Putting forth his theory of Reality Pedagogy, Emdin provides practical tools to unleash the brilliance and eagerness of youth and educators alike--both of whom have been typecast and stymied by outdated modes of thinking about urban education.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"--
• "Drawing on his own experience of feeling undervalued and invisible in classrooms as a young man of color and merging his experiences with more than a decade of teaching and researching in urban America, award-winning educator Christopher Emdin offers a new lens on an approach to teaching and learning in urban schools. He begins by taking to task the perception of urban youth of color as unteachable, and he challenges educators to embrace and respect each student's 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to unleash the brilliance and eagerness of youth and educators alike--both of whom have been typecast and stymied by outdated modes of thinking about urban education.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 C's" of reality pedagogy in their own classrooms, urban youth of color benefit from truly transformative education. Lively, accessible, and revelatory, For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood...and the Rest of Y'all Too is the much-needed antidote to traditional top-down pedagogy and promises to radically reframe the landscape of urban education for the better." -- Publisher's description

Series Statement

A Simmons College/Beacon Press race, education, and democracy series book

Uniform Title

Simmons College/Beacon Press race, education, and democracy series book.

Subject

• Education, Urban > United States > Sociological aspects
• Hip-hop > United States > Influence
• EDUCATION > Teaching Methods & Materials > Science & Technology
• EDUCATION > Philosophy & Social Aspects
• EDUCATION > Multicultural Education

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-215) and index.

Contents

Commencement -- Camaraderie : reality and the neoindigenous -- Courage : teach without fear -- Chuuuuch : Pentecostal pedagogy -- Cogenerative dialogues -- Coteaching -- Cosmopolitanism -- Context and content -- Competition -- Clean : change the world and dress well doing it -- Code switching -- Curation and computing -- Completion : thoughts on transformative teaching.

Call Number

Sc D 16-651

ISBN

• 9780807006405
• 0807006408

LCCN

2015033466

OCLC

933432442

Author

Emdin, Christopher, author.

Title

For White folks who teach in the hood ... and the rest of y'all too : reality pedagogy and urban education / Christopher Emdin.

Publisher

Boston : Beacon Press, [2016]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

A Simmons College/Beacon Press race, education, and democracy series book

Simmons College/Beacon Press race, education, and democracy series book.

Local Note

Schomburg copy with dust jacket.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-215) and index.

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Cover image

Local Subject

Black author.

Research Call Number

Sc D 16-651