For White Folks who Teach in the Hood ... and the Rest of Y'all too : : Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education

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Call Number: Adult Book / Nonfiction / Education / General / Emdin, Christopher
On Shelf At: Westgate Branch

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Commencement -- Camaraderie : reality and the neoindigenous -- Courage : teach without fear -- Chuuuuch : Pentecostal pedagogy -- Cogenerative dialogues -- Coteaching -- Cosmopolitanism -- Context and content -- Competition -- Clean : change the world and dress well doing it -- Code switching -- Curation and computing -- Completion : thoughts on transformative teaching.
"Merging real stories with theory, research, and practice, a prominent scholar offers a new approach to teaching and learning for every stakeholder in urban education. Drawing on his own experience of feeling undervalued and invisible in science classrooms as a young man of color, Christopher Emdin offers a new lens on and approach to teaching in urban schools. 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to unleash the brilliance and eagerness of youth and educators alike--both of whom have been typecast and stymied by outdated modes of thinking about urban education.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"-- Provided by publisher.

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If you have any minorities in your class, you should read this. submitted by ldibble on March 18, 2020, 10:15am First, you need to take your ego out of the equation. The author is a bit forward in challenging concepts of education and if this is your first foray into this type of literature be prepared for an influx of defensiveness - at least at first. Next, know that this isn't about doing ~more~ it is about doing things ~differently~ so that students can experience a broader range of learning styles, interventions, modalities that will end up helping everyone get better. Last, be prepared for conversations. I had the book out in all the usual places I read: my son's extracurricular practices, the bus, a coffee shop and almost every time someone asked me about it.

I'm not a teacher, but still learned and can use this information submitted by Susan4Pax -prev. sueij- on July 31, 2021, 10:00pm I’m not a teacher, but I am a social worker and have worked in soup kitchens and homeless shelters, all with diverse populations. I’m definitely not the core target audience for this book, but as someone who wants to be a better White social worker and communicator with my client families, I still got a lot out of it.

Emdin lays out solid and concrete ideas with classroom examples for how to connect with students and create a learning environment that helps White educators bridge the gap between their well-meaning desire to show up and teach, and the urban schools that they may be teaching in with students who are living within a non-White culture. Early in the book, he made the point that in interviews in wealthy White schools, teachers are selected for their content knowledge. In urban schools, teachers are interviewed for not only their content knowledge but also their classroom management skills. The expectation is set from the start that students will be a problem to be managed, and any behaviors that do not conform to White learning styles are deviant. He asks, What if instead students’ natural inclinations were brought to bear on their classroom communities, and the dynamics of their community life were replicated in service of their learning? He names seven ways to do this, with examples. I thought it was excellent, and can find ways to incorporate this with both parents and kid clients, as well as in smaller ways in collaborative work with Black coworkers.