Dr. Bettina Love
Educator | Hip Hop Educator
Friday, October 17th, 2014
Asian American Cultural Center - UIUC
12:00-4PM
Dr. Bettina L. Love is an award winning author and Assistant Professor of Educational Theory & Practice at the University of Georgia. Her research focuses on the ways in which urban youth negotiate Hip Hop music and culture to form social, cultural, and political identities to create new and sustaining ways of thinking about urban education. Her research is focused on transforming urban classrooms through the use of non-traditional educational curricula and classroom structures. Building on that theme, Dr. Love also has a passion for studying the school experiences of queer youth, along with race and inequality in education.
For a complete bio, please visit http://www.bettinalove.com/about/
Educator | Hip Hop Educator
Friday, October 17th, 2014
Asian American Cultural Center - UIUC
12:00-4PM
Dr. Bettina L. Love is an award winning author and Assistant Professor of Educational Theory & Practice at the University of Georgia. Her research focuses on the ways in which urban youth negotiate Hip Hop music and culture to form social, cultural, and political identities to create new and sustaining ways of thinking about urban education. Her research is focused on transforming urban classrooms through the use of non-traditional educational curricula and classroom structures. Building on that theme, Dr. Love also has a passion for studying the school experiences of queer youth, along with race and inequality in education.
For a complete bio, please visit http://www.bettinalove.com/about/
Hip hop, grit, and academic success: Bettina Love at TEDxUGA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkZqPMzgvzg
This impassioned talk explains how students who identify with Hip Hop culture have been ignored or deemed deficient in schools because of mainstream misconceptions associated with Hip Hop culture. Through Hip Hop, these students embody the characteristics of grit, social and emotional intelligence, and the act improvisation- all of which are proven to be predictors for academic success. So where is the break down between formalized education and the potential for success for these students? Dr. Love argues that ignoring students' culture in the classroom is all but an oversight; it's discrimination and injustice that plays out in our culture in very dangerous ways.