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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
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
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
This book is a MUST-READ for any anti-racist teacher. I have such a better appreciation for how I can reach all of my students, and I don't teach in the hood, but I want to connect to my students in authentic ways.
Super helpful book I will continue to use throughout teaching. This is my first year and I know this book will be super helpful this year. But i can keep referencing back throughout the years if I need.
This isn't just a clever guide to Americans who want to serve their country by teaching in the toughest schools, it is one of the most insightful, most clear guides to pedagogy--"reality pedagogy" as Emdin calls it--that I have ever read.
I just cannot recommend this one enough to teachers of all stripes.
First, Emdin begins by defining urban, minority students with the term, "neoindigenous." By this, he means that he is recommending an anthropological approach to developing teaching practices--more listening than lecturing.
One of Emdin's most profound points is his encouragement that teachers follow students into their non-school habitats. He lists pedagogy insights he has gotten inside African-American churches. He shows how regular games of basketball helped him to save time on planning and discipline.
Emdin is critical of approaches that try to impose another culture on 'neoindigenous' youth. He believes that teachers in the inner city should adopt modes of fashion and expression (like graffiti and slang) which demonstrating how codes switch between the neighborhood and the mainstream.
I, myself, don't teach in an inner-city school, but I found plenty in Emdin's book to apply to my own teaching.
I just cannot recommend this one enough to teachers of all stripes.
First, Emdin begins by defining urban, minority students with the term, "neoindigenous." By this, he means that he is recommending an anthropological approach to developing teaching practices--more listening than lecturing.
One of Emdin's most profound points is his encouragement that teachers follow students into their non-school habitats. He lists pedagogy insights he has gotten inside African-American churches. He shows how regular games of basketball helped him to save time on planning and discipline.
Emdin is critical of approaches that try to impose another culture on 'neoindigenous' youth. He believes that teachers in the inner city should adopt modes of fashion and expression (like graffiti and slang) which demonstrating how codes switch between the neighborhood and the mainstream.
I, myself, don't teach in an inner-city school, but I found plenty in Emdin's book to apply to my own teaching.
This book was very validating and gave a different view on teaching pedagogue than what I have heard in most places! Some great ideas that I hope to implement in my classes sept 2023!!
Learned some important things about making the classroom feel more like their community and less like a prison, but some of the ideas he suggested (adopting students' slang and dressing like them) felt like borderline cultural appropriation? Idk
informative
reflective
medium-paced
The most practical guide I've read so far. My only qualm is that parts of the book rely on the teacher working outside of school hours. I know this is a standard expectation, but I don't think it should be supported by educators. I can be a great teacher without working out of the school and school hours
I'm not a white person who teaches in the hood (I'm "the rest of y'all), but this book was fantastic and gave me so many great ideas for my school and classroom along with a new way of looking at education.