HipHopEd may have started as a hashtag, but today it is much more. HipHopEd challenges traditional educational values and approaches while supporting hip hop-based classroom intervention and pedagogy. HipHopEd ties hip hop to literacy through its Liberation Literacies program. This program emphasizes the value of multiple literacies and demonstrates how different literacies have value. Liberation Literacies also seeks to disrupt and be critical of dominant ideologies that leave many students, particularly students of color, on the margins of classrooms.
This disconnect is relevant to literacy because a lack of awareness and representation for cultural art forms often accompanies the same lack of awareness and representation for correlating languages and vernaculars. In both cases there is a set standard which everything is measured against. Instead of recognizing the unique value in varying art or speech, differences are exoticized.
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