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For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y'All Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education
Christopher Emdin
4.11 AVERAGE
202 reviews for:
For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y'All Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education
Christopher Emdin
4.11 AVERAGE
I think all teachers could learn from this book. The book covers reality pedagogy and offers several strategies for the classroom. You may not be able to implement all of the ideas in the same way they are described but all of his points should be considered and addressed in the classroom. Solid read, would recommend.
This was pretty much a book of affirmations. And how fun to have met the author!
It didn't read like a typical education book, which I really appreciate, and I think the framing of parallels in "education for compliance" between the indigenous and the students Emdin terms as the neoindigenous is really enlightening. There were a couple of ideas that I had a hard time imagining myself implementing, but any book about education and/or race is probably failing if there isn't anything stretching us out of our comfort zones.
This book pushed me to think about things I hadn’t before, and confront why I hadn’t been thinking about them or dismissed them as buzzwords. A good book for educators, in any setting.
hopeful
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
Whew! This one took me a while. A great opportunity to reflect on the amount of work I still need to do to make sure my classroom and pedagogy is truly a space of welcome for all students- where everyone can be successful. I’m so excited to implement some of these strategies in my teaching.
“ The work for teachers becomes developing the self reflection necessary to deconstruct the ways that media messages, other teachers negative (often exaggerated) stories, and their own need to be the hero affects how they see and teach students. The teacher must work to ensure that the institution does not absolve them of the responsibility to acknowledge the baggage they bring to the classroom and analyze how that might affect student achievement. Without teachers recognizing the biases they hold and how these biases impact the ways that they see and teach students, there is no starting point to changing the decimal statistics related to the academic under performance of urban youth.” Pg 43
First education/pedagogy book I read that I’ve leaned on during every teaching experience. Timeless, always relevant, and one I’ll always love!
The introduction and conclusion should be required reading for any teacher, not just those who teach in urban schools. The chapters based around the "Seven C's" of reality pedagogy didn't feel as revelatory to me. There are good ideas for teachers, even teachers like me who don't teach in diverse/urban schools, but what I want to see from a book like this is how to change not just classroom instruction but the values education is built upon. Some ideas (like the cogen/cypher) I could see teachers easily make use of in the classroom, but many teachers don't work in an environment that allows for a great deal of pedagogical freedom. Like many educational books, a lot of this book seems directed toward the reflective teacher that wants to improve and is willing to "close the door" and teach. After having read a great many teaching books, I want educational books that focus on revolutionary change in education. How do we reach the teachers that are stuck in their ways? How do we change the culture of a school and not just a classroom? The intro and conclusion clearly establish that Emdin wants this sort of revolutionary change, but the chapters in between didn't fire me up in the same way.
informative
slow-paced