{"id":486,"date":"2012-06-15T10:42:07","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T16:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/?p=486"},"modified":"2012-06-15T10:42:07","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T16:42:07","slug":"gs-554-classrooms-in-motion-hip-hop-based-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/2012\/06\/15\/gs-554-classrooms-in-motion-hip-hop-based-education\/","title":{"rendered":"GS 554 &#8212; Classrooms in Motion: Hip-Hop Based Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our discussion of Marc Lamont Hill&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=WXVPPgAACAAJ&amp;dq=beats+rhymes+and+classroom+life&amp;hl=en&amp;src=bmrr&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=VE3bT7q2LuS-2AWQ_7S3CA&amp;ved=0CDYQ6AEwAA\">Beats, Rhymes, and Classroom Life: Hip-Hop Pedagogy and the Politics of Identity<\/a><\/em> produced many themes and questions. Here are a few. Feel free to continue discussion by posting comments.<\/p>\n<p>Themes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Teachers being afraid.<\/li>\n<li>The importance of storytelling in cultivating meaningful relationships.<\/li>\n<li>The various levels of resistance (social, institutional, and psychological) to treating humans as individual beings.<\/li>\n<li>The role of bravado and machismo in identity work.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is there <em>more <\/em>of a need to cultivate authentic relationships with students in a culturally diverse classroom?<\/li>\n<li>How can you cultivate meaningful relationships with students while honoring the need for professionalism?<\/li>\n<li>What do you have in your &#8220;teacher&#8217;s toolbox&#8221; beyond curriculum?<\/li>\n<li>Has fear prevented you from culturally engaging students in your classroom?<\/li>\n<li>How can you engage youth perspective of popular culture as a rich and meaningful source of learning that has traditionally been subordinated to traditional academic perspectives?<\/li>\n<li>What is the role of popular culture in the formation of a young person&#8217;s identity?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We also viewed and discussed the 1995 film <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0113540\/\">Kids.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our discussion of Marc Lamont Hill&#8217;s Beats, Rhymes, and Classroom Life: Hip-Hop Pedagogy and the Politics of Identity produced many themes and questions. Here are a few. Feel free to continue discussion by posting comments. Themes: Teachers being afraid. The importance of storytelling in cultivating meaningful relationships. The various levels of resistance (social, institutional, and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/2012\/06\/15\/gs-554-classrooms-in-motion-hip-hop-based-education\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;GS 554 &#8212; Classrooms in Motion: Hip-Hop Based Education&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":186,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-block-a","category-gs554","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1RtXj-7Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/186"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":488,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions\/488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}