Trap-Ed In The City: An Action Research Study on the Impact of Emdin's "Reality Pedagogy" in the Urban Music Classroom
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Authors
Bowers, Lauren
Issue Date
2019-03-29
Type
Other
Language
en_US
Keywords
Cross cultural education , Music education , Reality pedagogy , Urban education
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Abstract
As a teacher in a Title 1 school, I was armed with a pedagogy based in values that neither resembled the experiences of my students nor the realities of their daily lives. In efforts to bridge this divide, I discovered Chris Emdin’s book For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood…and the Rest of Ya’ll Too. In it he explained his reality pedagogy and the use of cogenerative dialogues to bring both teacher and student together as facilitators in the learning process. Emdin’s work echoed the sentiments of Reuben Gaztambide-Fernandez and cultural production. Armed with both, I sought to tackle the problematic separation between my students and I.