Global Hip Hop and Civics Education” at Rutgers University on April 6th.
On April 6th, Rutgers University will host “Global Hip Hop and Civics Education,” a day-long workshop for K-12 educators, Rutgers students and faculty, and artists and community leaders throughout our region. The workshop highlights Hip Hop’s role in provoking civic engagement and global citizenship from a broad variety of perspectives, and offers strategies that help educators link musical modes of learning to the project of cultivating civically engaged students. Participants will learn strategies for promoting the educational values of orality, storytelling, multilingualism, and community engagement through a Global Hip Hop framework, along with perspectives on youth movements and practices throughout the world. Our focus is on the potentials of Hip Hop poetics for exploring the complexities of people of color in the World and their gendered local and global racial diversities. The event will run from 9:30AM to 5:30PM and will feature panels and collaborative sessions, as well as keynotes by Dr. Lauren Leigh Kelly (School of Education) and Dr. Marjoris Regus (School of Music).
The workshop will show how NJ Youth from multi-ethnic backgrounds can produce Hip Hop musical, dance, literary and visual poetics to address the complexity of their Americanness in ways that need to be tackled in our K-12 curricula. We are eager to connect with teachers, scholars, and community leaders across subjects and education levels who are interested in using Hip Hop to help students think globally, and we emphasize modes of collaborative student-led learning and deep musical engagement. All attendees will be given access to an online packet that includes pedagogical strategies, unit designs, in-class exercises and assignments to promote global civic engagement through hip hop frameworks.
On behalf of the Department of African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures, along with the School of Arts and Sciences, the Center for African Studies, Rutgers Global, and Mason Gross School of the Arts, we hope you will join us for this impactful event!
Global Hip Hop and Civics Education Symposium, Rutgers University
