Schooling Hip-Hop : Expanding Hip-Hop Based Education Across the Curriculum

This book brings together veteran and emerging scholars from a variety of fields to chart new territory for hip-hop based education.

Looking beyond rap music and the English language arts classroom, innovative chapters unpack the theory and practice of hip-hop based education in science, social studies, college composition, teacher education, and other fields.

Authors consider not only the curricular aspects of hip-hop but also how its deeper aesthetics such as improvisational freestyling and competitive battling can shape teaching and learning in both secondary and higher education classrooms.

Schooling Hip-Hop will spark new and creative uses of hip-hop culture in a variety of educational settings.