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A review by jdintr
For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y'all Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education by Christopher Emdin
5.0
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.