Urban science education for the hip-hop generation / / Christopher Emdin.

• Superior document: Cultural perspectives in science education : research dialogs 01
• VerfasserIn: Emdin, Christopher,
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam, The Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Sense Publishers,, [2010]; 2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Cultural perspectives in science education : research dialogs 01.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

Christopher Emdin is an assistant professor of science education and director of secondary school initiatives at the Urban Science Education Center at Teachers College, Columbia University. He holds a Ph.D. in urban education with a concentration in mathematics, science and technology; a master’s degree in natural sciences; and a bachelor’s degree in physical anthropology, biology, and chemistry. His book, Urban Science Education for the Hip-Hop Generation is rooted in his experiences as student, teacher, administrator, and researcher in urban schools and the deep relationship between hip-hop culture and science that he discovered at every stage of his academic and professional journey. The book utilizes autobiography, outcomes of research studies, theoretical explorations, and accounts of students’ experiences in schools to shed light on the causes for the lack of educational achievement of urban youth from the hip-hop generation.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- On Rap and Hip-hop -- Teach a New Way -- From 1520 Sedgwick to the World: Masked but Not Erased -- We are Hip-hop and School is Not -- Negotiating the Terrain of Cultural Misalignment -- Blame and Power in Urban Science Education -- From the Global to the Local: Hip-hop, Science Education, and the Ritual -- Moving Beyond the Silence… We’re Droppin’ Science -- Reframing Urban Science Education -- Glossary -- References.