Overview
Interested in learning more about Hip-Hop and diving deeper into conversation about its history, present, and future? Hart House is grateful to be working with Marcus Singleton a.k.a. iomos marad as our inaugural Hart House Hip Hop Education Community Connector, who is available to meet with all U of T students, Staff, and Faculty, and Community to chat all things Hip-Hop and Hip-Hop Education!
These in-person (and hybrid) drop-in chats are meant to be organic conversations to share knowledge and questions, learn from each other, and build together. Share your questions and curiosity about Hip-Hop, and learn about Marcus’ work as an artist, educator, and activist, including his doctoral research exploring Hip Hop as Critical Pedagogy. Each session will have a focus area, but the conversations will take natural bends and turns as they come up!
Anyone interested in Hip-Hop and Hip-Hop Education are welcome to pull up!
Session Schedule
Critical Hip Hop Pedagogy and the Classroom: What does it look like?
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Location: Hart House, Burwash Room.
Hip Hop and Youth Activism
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Location: Hart House, Burwash Room.
Hip Hop as a Global Passport
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Location: Hart House, Burwash Room.
Speaker
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Marcus Singleton a.k.a. iomos marad
Community Connector, Hip Hop Education
Marcus is originally from the Englewood Community in the South Side of Chicago. He is a conscious Hip-Hop artist/educator who is an advocate for Black students. He completed his Masters of Education in Social Justice Education and is currently a Ph.D student in the Social Justice Department at The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, under the supervision of Dr. rosalind hampton.
His research focuses on Critical Hip-Hop Pedagogy and Critical Race reading practices within Black Studies. Using Critical Hip-Hop Pedagogy and Critical Race reading practices, the goal is to create counter-spaces of resistance with Black students who are willing to move collaboratively and transnationally to challenge and deconstruct institutions (schools & prisons) constructed by eurocentric-colonialistic ideas and methods of teaching.
His research interests include the mixed methodologies of:
- (Auto)ethnography;
- Black Emancipatory Action Research (BEAR);
- Critical Race Theory (CRT) reading practices;
- Youth Action Participatory Research (YPAR).
The goal again, is to create counter-spaces and platforms for critical-creative art based practices for Black students to reclaim their voice and their African/Caribbean/ Afro-Latino/ Indigenous ways of learning. Marcus contends that as Black students begin to take ownership and reclaim their voice and develop their own pedagogies and methodologies for learning, they will be able to counter colonial eurocentric institutions (schools & prisons) that continue to uphold anti-Black, oppressive teaching approaches as a weapon aimed against Black students versus using education and pedagogy as a liberatory practice for Black students.
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