Chapter 24 The Hip-Hopification of Education?
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Abstract
Hip hop is a culture born out of the need to express and create. Hip hop education applies the creative, vibrant energy of hip hop in the classroom. I’d like to take you on a journey through the different phases of the hip hop work I carry out within education. We begin at Phase One, the enquiry stage, where teachers investigate how hip hop can be impactful and relevant to their students. Phase Two depicts a meeting of worlds where hip hop ‘signs in’ and enters education. Phase Three is storytelling, which features strongly in my Hip Hop Literacy program, which aims to make learning more fun, to provide an understanding of hip hop whilst simultaneously improving literacy skills. Phase Four embraces active engagement, which gives students part ownership of the performance and their thoughts and feelings, validating their expression irrespective of spelling and grammar. Phase Five is sharing outstanding students’ verses that expose their vulnerability, writing skill and knowledge of self. My rebellious practice is to enter a world, set up my world within it, disrupt, understand, transform and empower and then leave a whole new world behind. And that is Phase Six of my work and research – a new world!