For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y'all Too For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y'all Too

For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y'all Too

Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education

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    • $12.99

Publisher Description

A New York Times Best Seller

"Essential 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, National Book Award Winner author of South To America

An 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 better


Drawing 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 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to unleash the brilliance and eagerness of youth and educators alike—both of whom have been typecast and stymied by outdated modes of thinking about urban education.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 Cs” of reality pedagogy in their own classrooms, urban youth of color benefit from truly transformative education.

GENRE
Professional & Technical
RELEASED
2016
March 22
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
232
Pages
PUBLISHER
Beacon Press
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
1.5
MB

Customer Reviews

David H Dennis ,

To reach kids in the hood, use their lingo

You look at a classroom of faces unfamiliar to you. They use strange words like “enuf” and “hood”. You have no idea how to connect. This book says that’s just not enough. To teach people outside your culture, you need to learn some of theirs.

This seems pretty obvious, but in the world of hidebound public schools, it is not. By ignoring contemporary culture, you make yourself impossible to relate to. And so they sit, entirely disconnected with what you need to teach them. This book shows you how to cross the cultural divide by learning and responding to their needs. Interesting and inspirational,

Cedarhillmom ,

Good read

My kids attend a school that could use this book. I think he does an eloquent job with articulating some of the challenges with school administration, teachers and school culture. More people need to read and commit to positive action. This book articulated that we must analyze our actions and commit to do better with purposeful action.

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Breakbeat Pedagogy Breakbeat Pedagogy
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