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

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

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to unleash the brilliance and eagerness of youth and educators alike--both of whom have been typecast and stymied by outdated modes of thinking about urban education.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.

Christopher Emdin is an Associate Director of the Institute for Urban and Minority Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, where he is also a professor and the Program Director of Science Education in the Department of Mathematics, Science, and Technology. He is the author of the New York Times Bestseller For White People Who Teach in the Hood...and the Rest of Y'all Too and Urban Science Education for the Hip-hop Generation, as well as the #HipHopEd social media campaign and the Science Genius program.

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ISBN 13	9780807028025
ISBN 10	0807028029
Title	For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y'all Too
Author	Christopher Emdin
Series	Race Education And Democracy
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Beacon Press
Year published	2017-01-03
Number of pages	232
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