Love brings hip-hop education to elementary classrooms
For the past several years, Bettina Love, an associate professor in the Department of Educational Theory and Practice, has worked to incorporate hip-hop education into the classroom by taking cues from students’ real life experiences.
She is currently focused on developing Common Core hip-hop curricula for middle and high school students. As the 2015 recipient of the Nasir Jones Hiphop Fellowship from Harvard University, Love can use hip-hop as a vehicle for delivering instruction to students. In a recent interview with WABE-FM, Love cited classroom management as a fundamental key to hip-hop education.
Hip-hop is part of American culture … I don’t think this is something that is just for African-American kids," she said. “This is something for all kids because we are talking about a rich culture with traditions, sensibilities and roots.