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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
This gave me a lot of things to consider, as well as some small validations that I am doing some of the right things to try to check my privilege and adjust my very white idea of success to help my students achieve something that feels like success TO THEM.
However, as with many educational books, I am torn by the fact that the teachers who most need to read this book and understand its contents are the ones who would scoff and tell you it's not a problem and wouldn't touch the book with a ten foot pole.
However, as with many educational books, I am torn by the fact that the teachers who most need to read this book and understand its contents are the ones who would scoff and tell you it's not a problem and wouldn't touch the book with a ten foot pole.
By far the best book I have read as an educator- I only wish I had this along my whole journey- so glad I have it now.
Great read. Looking for ways to implement in the classroom!
Damn, this book is wonderful. Christopher Emdin is a genius. The book focuses on reality pedagogy — meeting students on their own "cultural and emotional turf[s]." Emdin focuses on student-centered approaches and offers numerous practical ways to center students' voices in improving classrooms. I particularly appreciated his useful suggestions for ways to discuss code switching in the classroom, and ways to implement using social media for learning, even in schools that might block social media access. Definitely going to use this as one of my many bibles as I head into my first year of teaching high school.
My professor had us read this book intermittently throughout the semester, as it has great content for discussions. I found some useful and enlightening concepts and some that I didn’t completely agree with. I’m still unsure how I feel about the context in which he uses the term neoindigenous. However, Emdin has a lot of great ideas and perspectives that we can and should consider when deciding which instructional approaches work best for our Black and Brown students living in urban areas. Sociocultural background is only one slice of the pie, but an important one.
A Must Read For ALL Educators
No matter what level you teach at, I promise you need to read and learn from this book. I'm already noodling on how I can improve my courses for next semester.
No matter what level you teach at, I promise you need to read and learn from this book. I'm already noodling on how I can improve my courses for next semester.
Some solid and innovative ideas on sharing your voice with your students. The book reads like Paolo Friere for the modern urban classroom but with scads of practical suggestions.
An engaging, practical must-read in general. Doubly so for anyone working with urban youth. http://winsomegates.jenevivedesroches.com/post/2016/11/14/For-White-Folks-Who-Teach-in-the-Hood-by-Christopher-Emdin
The first two or three chapters were pretty great, and there are little gems strewn throughout, but some of the more prescriptive things like his cogens can feel like a way of turning solid theories into just another education product. A more thorough discussion or connection to resources on a variety of ways to develop similar types of systems would have been of greater value for me personally. Giving the reader one method, especially readers with little or no classroom experience, can almost be a disservice in that regard. Nonetheless, I think Emdin addresses many of the challenges that teachers are likely to face specifically in underfunded schools in big cities. For most beginning teachers, I think there's plenty here to engage with and take seriously while realizing that you're going to develop your own techniques.
informative
inspiring
slow-paced
Overall a really good book with points on how to challenge racist systems within individual classrooms and for individual teachers. I think there could have been more of a pushback against the concept of schooling itself. Like, yes, under the current system we need kids to succeed, but also maybe we can work to overhaul the whole system as well. It just doesn't seem to touch on systemic change that much. But for a book for actionable ways to change your own teaching practices, it's very good.