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Prof. Chris Emdin: Reality Pedagogy

 

What is Reality Pedagogy?

 

A Summary of Reality Pedagogy Christopher Emdin

 

Emdin (2011) defined RP as a teaching method that “focuses on the cultural understandings of students within a particular social space, like a science classroom” (p. 286). RP consists of what Emdin (2011) calls the “5 C’s”: cogenerative dialogues, coteaching, cosmopolitanism, context, and content.

 

  1. Co-generative dialogues - Structured dialogues that build on students’ Hip Hop identities and familiarity with the Hip Hop communal tradition of Cyphers are one of the most longstanding cultural rituals of Hip Hop (Love, 2013).
  2. Co-teaching - Encourages students to be the “expert at pedagogy…while the teacher is positioned as a novice who is learning how to teach” (Emdin, 2011, p. 288). Coteaching allows teachers to study how students learn from one another in order to better understand students’ learning styles, and provides an opportunity for students to learn in ways that reflect their
  3. Cosmopolitanism - Based on the philosophical construct that human beings are responsible for each other and that individual differences should be
  4. Context - Connects students’ home-lives and culture to their classrooms through community and culture Context allows students to bring to the classroom artifacts that represent who they are and where they come from. Emdin writes, “[w]hen students can physically see and examine artifacts both in the classrooms and in their home communities, the divides between the school world and their real lives are broken down” (p. 291).
  5. Content - Evolves out of the willingness of the teacher to acknowledge his or her own limitations with academic content and to explore and learn with

 

Weekly Schedule

This week, access and read through the course content. Write an INITIAL DISCUSSION POST by Thursday at 11:59 PM. You will then need to respond to others in the class in the weekly discussion. Your RESPONSE POST is due by Sunday at 11:59 PM .

In addition, the following assignments will be due this week by Sunday at 11:59 PM:

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