The Power of Using Rap at the Beginning of an Academic Talk

For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood
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The Talk
What is the power of using this rap at the beginning of an academic talk?
How have terms, like, ‘multicultural’, lost their meaning? What Is an example of how these terms can be warped?
Losing the Meaning of Peace, Justice and Equity
How does warping these terms take away from the goals of peace, justice and equity?
The Role of Guilt in Teaching and Learning
What is the ‘dangerous minds’ model of recruiting privileged teachers Into low-Income schools overwhelmingly populated with students of color?
What are the ‘boulders’ that these teachers carry with them into the classroom, and how does that affect their work’?
What might ‘dumping White guilt off’ onto students look like in practice? What does crushing them look like?
Equity
How does Chris Emdin define equity? What critiques of ‘equity initiatives’ does Emdin deploy? What is the role of student voice in equity?
Reality Pedagogy
What Is reality pedagogy?
What does Emdin say the flaws are In how culturally relevant pedagogy is deployed?
Now does our guilt play into mistakes in deploying culturally relevant pedagogy?
5 C’s of Reality Pedagogy
What are COGENERATIVE DIALOGUES?
What Is CO-TEACHING?
What Is COSMOPOLITANISM?
What is CONTEXT?
What Is CONTENT?