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September 2 - November 30, 2020
the brand of competition that the neoindigenous engage in runs in sharp contrast to the competition that is found in traditional schools, where the goal is for one individual to be better than all others without a focus on building or supporting community or being successful together.
How does CSS / PGC use competition?
These youth are more reliant on artistic forms of self-expression than their counterparts from more privileged settings or backgrounds.
Why does Emden speak as those this applies to all (or even most) neoindigenous students.
However, the incorporation of neoindigenous fashion along with the teacher’s own style serves as a powerful jumping-off point for rich dialogue with youth that opens up the space for powerful teaching moments.
What's the line between this and cultural appropriation? What’s the line between appropriately appreciating and sharing students interests versus oddly mimicking students in a wierd gambit to forge a relationship?
For those who have the luxury of not being concerned with how they look or dress, it can be challenging to appreciate how and why it means so much to others.
Please don't imply that the mainstream universally foresake fashion whike the neoindigineius universally embrace fashion.
The question is then, how are youth expected to truly engage in the classroom when even the physical structure and aesthetics of the places where they are supposed to be learning are the same as those in places where they go when they have been arrested?
the more artistic and aesthetically inclusive classrooms seemed to make students more likely to respond to our questions.
Another way to consider the aesthetics of the neoindigenous is to create a graffiti wall in the classroom.
In many ways, when we objectify youth and observe their culture without entering it or participating in it, we implicitly carry on a tradition of subhumanization.
Observing/objectifying vs. Participating/entering: these aren't the only options.
The work laid out thus far must be complimented with teaching youth the art of the code switch and its utility in their own neighborhoods, and in places beyond.
However, a distinction must be made between code switching and teaching students to be unnaturally like others for acceptance.
When they can code switch with fluency,
and appreciate why they do so,
they enter new social spaces with a comfort and courage that taps into th...
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As they employ socially constructed c...
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while maintaining their own cultura...
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they force the world to see past these same codes and rules when indentifying the br...
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Creating an online presence is a skill that should be taught in classrooms.
True!
#HipHopEd.
The use of classroom Twitter is an activity that looks very different from what we see in a traditional classroom. It requires that students are able to stand up during the teacher’s lecture and that they are engaged in a way that allows for their multimodal neoindigenous nature to be expressed in the classroom. The activity pushes them to pay close attention to the teacher, the Twitter board, and each other in a way that allows them to bring their full selves to the classroom.
Another activity that brings social media into the classroom is the use of “classroom Instagram.”
The longer teachers teach, the better they are at their practice. That practice may serve to empower students or it may break the students’ spirit. That decision belongs to the teacher.
