Bronwen Low
Biographic Data
| ID | 642770 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bronwen Low |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bronwen |
| FAMILY NAME | Low |
| SIGNATURE | LOW B |
| AFFILIATIONS | McGill University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2503-8465 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A Different Energy: The Critical Hip-Hop Teaching Artist and School Culture
We study the role of Hip-Hop teaching artists in a school change initiative. A school-university-community partnership in a Canadian city, the project sought to develop a school-wide focus on the “urban arts” for student learning and wellbeing. The experiences of nine teaching artists over four years, examined through the lens of Critical Hip-Hop Pedagogy, offer insight into the roles of Hip-Hop based teaching artists in a nontraditional, arts-ba…
The many ways of Puerto Rican community music
For several decades, scholars in the field of community music have largely concentrated on community music practices in the Global North. Such interest has not been as prevalent in certain parts of the world, like the Caribbean. Consequently, this qualitative multiple case study focuses on three Puerto Rican community music initiatives that foster the country’s indigenous music: Bomba, Plena, and Música Campesina. Scholars have documented the evo…
Survey of the Effects of Law 21 on Students and Staff in Faculties of Education in Québec
A working group of the Observatoire sur la Formation à la Diversité et l’Équité conducted a survey of the impacts of Law 21, the Act respecting the Laicity of the State, during its first year of application on faculties and departments of education across Québec. Although the law is not supposed to affect universities or student teachers, since they are not employees of the Centres de services scolaires or school boards, findings from among the 9…
Algorithmic imaginings and critical digital literacy on #BookTok
Despite the growing impact of algorithms on digital culture, and the importance of algorithmic awareness, little literacy research has investigated how algorithmic awareness and speculation shapes cultural production on digital platforms. Developing Bucher’s concept of the “algorithmic imagination” for digital literacy research, we conduct a study of #BookTok, the home of book-related content on TikTok, the most algorithm-driven social media plat…
Exploring the limits of 21st century educational change discourses
This paper discusses the discourses surrounding an ambitious high-school transformation project in a large Canadian city that sought to reimagine education for 21st century learning. It was grounded in a broad review of the latest educational research. While an initial eight schools signed on, by the end of the second year all had left the project. Drawing upon Gee's ([2005]. An introduction to discourse analysis: Theory and method. New York, NY:…
Exploring the ‘craftedness’ of multimedia narratives: From creation to interpretation
This paper emerges from a comparative study of two community-based multimedia storytelling projects in Toronto and Montreal, and the multimedia narratives participants produced in those projects. Following current scholarship in visual methods that acknowledges the significance for research of the medium’s formal qualities, the authors offer the concept of ‘craftedness’ as one which might help researchers grapple with the significance of the proc…
The Tale of the Talent Night Rap: Hip-Hop Culture in Schools and the Challenge of Interpretation
Although the number of calls to integrate Hip-Hop culture into school curricula is growing, little attention is being paid to the reluctance of teachers and administrators to forge relationships between the cultures of school and of youth. This article explores some of the difficulties inherent in the relationships between Hip Hop and schooling, including interpretive tensions between White administrators and teachers and African American youth, …
Ch'us mon propre Bescherelle: Challenges from the Hip-Hop nation to the Quebec nation1
We examine the uses of and attitudes towards language of members of the Montreal Hip-Hop community in relation to Quebec language-in-education policies. These policies, implemented in the 1970s, have ensured that French has become the common public language of an ethnically diverse young adult population in Montreal. We argue, usingBlommaert's (2005)model of orders of indexicality, that the dominant language hierarchy orders established by govern…
Hip-Hop, Language, and Difference: The N-Word as a Pedagogical Limit-Case
This article explores the implications for Hip-Hop pedagogies of the controversial N-word, central to rap music and yet one that most non-Black and many Black teachers will not utter. The author argues that the word takes the tensions between Black popular culture and schools to an extreme, and therefore acts as a limit-case that sheds light on some of the challenges and possibilities of working across differences. The author draws on class discu…
Media Review Section 1
Ch'us mon propre Bescherelle: Challenges from the Hip-Hop nation to the Quebec nation1
We examine the uses of and attitudes towards language of members of the Montreal Hip-Hop community in relation to Quebec language-in-education policies. These policies, implemented in the 1970s, have ensured that French has become the common public language of an ethnically diverse young adult population in Montreal. We argue, usingBlommaert's (2005)model of orders of indexicality, that the dominant language hierarchy orders established by govern…
Hip-Hop, Language, and Difference: The N-Word as a Pedagogical Limit-Case
This article explores the implications for Hip-Hop pedagogies of the controversial N-word, central to rap music and yet one that most non-Black and many Black teachers will not utter. The author argues that the word takes the tensions between Black popular culture and schools to an extreme, and therefore acts as a limit-case that sheds light on some of the challenges and possibilities of working across differences. The author draws on class discu…
Algorithmic imaginings and critical digital literacy on #BookTok
Despite the growing impact of algorithms on digital culture, and the importance of algorithmic awareness, little literacy research has investigated how algorithmic awareness and speculation shapes cultural production on digital platforms. Developing Bucher’s concept of the “algorithmic imagination” for digital literacy research, we conduct a study of #BookTok, the home of book-related content on TikTok, the most algorithm-driven social media plat…
The Tale of the Talent Night Rap: Hip-Hop Culture in Schools and the Challenge of Interpretation
Although the number of calls to integrate Hip-Hop culture into school curricula is growing, little attention is being paid to the reluctance of teachers and administrators to forge relationships between the cultures of school and of youth. This article explores some of the difficulties inherent in the relationships between Hip Hop and schooling, including interpretive tensions between White administrators and teachers and African American youth, …
Exploring the limits of 21st century educational change discourses
This paper discusses the discourses surrounding an ambitious high-school transformation project in a large Canadian city that sought to reimagine education for 21st century learning. It was grounded in a broad review of the latest educational research. While an initial eight schools signed on, by the end of the second year all had left the project. Drawing upon Gee's ([2005]. An introduction to discourse analysis: Theory and method. New York, NY:…
Media Review Section 1
Hip-Hop, Language, and Difference: The N-Word as a Pedagogical Limit-Case
This article explores the implications for Hip-Hop pedagogies of the controversial N-word, central to rap music and yet one that most non-Black and many Black teachers will not utter. The author argues that the word takes the tensions between Black popular culture and schools to an extreme, and therefore acts as a limit-case that sheds light on some of the challenges and possibilities of working across differences. The author draws on class discu…
Ch'us mon propre Bescherelle: Challenges from the Hip-Hop nation to the Quebec nation1
We examine the uses of and attitudes towards language of members of the Montreal Hip-Hop community in relation to Quebec language-in-education policies. These policies, implemented in the 1970s, have ensured that French has become the common public language of an ethnically diverse young adult population in Montreal. We argue, usingBlommaert's (2005)model of orders of indexicality, that the dominant language hierarchy orders established by govern…
The Tale of the Talent Night Rap: Hip-Hop Culture in Schools and the Challenge of Interpretation
Although the number of calls to integrate Hip-Hop culture into school curricula is growing, little attention is being paid to the reluctance of teachers and administrators to forge relationships between the cultures of school and of youth. This article explores some of the difficulties inherent in the relationships between Hip Hop and schooling, including interpretive tensions between White administrators and teachers and African American youth, …
Exploring the ‘craftedness’ of multimedia narratives: From creation to interpretation
This paper emerges from a comparative study of two community-based multimedia storytelling projects in Toronto and Montreal, and the multimedia narratives participants produced in those projects. Following current scholarship in visual methods that acknowledges the significance for research of the medium’s formal qualities, the authors offer the concept of ‘craftedness’ as one which might help researchers grapple with the significance of the proc…
Algorithmic imaginings and critical digital literacy on #BookTok
Despite the growing impact of algorithms on digital culture, and the importance of algorithmic awareness, little literacy research has investigated how algorithmic awareness and speculation shapes cultural production on digital platforms. Developing Bucher’s concept of the “algorithmic imagination” for digital literacy research, we conduct a study of #BookTok, the home of book-related content on TikTok, the most algorithm-driven social media plat…
Exploring the limits of 21st century educational change discourses
This paper discusses the discourses surrounding an ambitious high-school transformation project in a large Canadian city that sought to reimagine education for 21st century learning. It was grounded in a broad review of the latest educational research. While an initial eight schools signed on, by the end of the second year all had left the project. Drawing upon Gee's ([2005]. An introduction to discourse analysis: Theory and method. New York, NY:…
The many ways of Puerto Rican community music
For several decades, scholars in the field of community music have largely concentrated on community music practices in the Global North. Such interest has not been as prevalent in certain parts of the world, like the Caribbean. Consequently, this qualitative multiple case study focuses on three Puerto Rican community music initiatives that foster the country’s indigenous music: Bomba, Plena, and Música Campesina. Scholars have documented the evo…
Survey of the Effects of Law 21 on Students and Staff in Faculties of Education in Québec
A working group of the Observatoire sur la Formation à la Diversité et l’Équité conducted a survey of the impacts of Law 21, the Act respecting the Laicity of the State, during its first year of application on faculties and departments of education across Québec. Although the law is not supposed to affect universities or student teachers, since they are not employees of the Centres de services scolaires or school boards, findings from among the 9…
A Different Energy: The Critical Hip-Hop Teaching Artist and School Culture
We study the role of Hip-Hop teaching artists in a school change initiative. A school-university-community partnership in a Canadian city, the project sought to develop a school-wide focus on the “urban arts” for student learning and wellbeing. The experiences of nine teaching artists over four years, examined through the lens of Critical Hip-Hop Pedagogy, offer insight into the roles of Hip-Hop based teaching artists in a nontraditional, arts-ba…
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Pedagogy (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Music History and Culture (4 works) · Visual arts (4 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Social science (3 works)