Transformation Towards Social Justice
Artistic Amalgams Seen Through a Hip-Hop Pedagogical Lens
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12967418 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lisa Delgado Brown (0000-0002-8857-5284, Saint Leo University, corresponding author), Ebony N Pérez (Saint Leo University) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 521-526 |
| Publication date | 2023-10-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Social Justice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1911-4788 • E-ISSN: 1911-4788 |
| Publisher | Brock University Library (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.26522/ssj.v17i3.4072 |
| OpenAlex | W4387337157 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
There is beauty in evolution, a need for us as humans to understand the essence of reform and how it begins.As educators, we seek to explore how students in the United States understand social justice.Classrooms can be an agent of change -a venue where teachers can encourage and nurture new ideas.We were interested in exploring this relationship and sought to explore how our higher education classrooms were an agent of change, a first step in an ongoing societal conversation about social justice as experienced by students in an undergraduate honors course, "Hip-Hop and Social Justice."In this creative essay, we explore the nature of transformation, specifically how students engaged in injustice when presented through hip-hop culture.We examined explicit (what students said) and implicit (how students presented) responses as students worked to understand the nature of transformation from the student perspective, and how it was related to social justice.Transformation becomes necessary when human rights are out of balance.This theme -transformation -is a central one touched on within the course and widely represented through the hip-hop genre.Transformation can be defined as a conversion, a change that happens as variables adjust and reconfigure.Piaget's notions of accommodation and assimilation come to mind -as individuals encounter new information we go through a cognitive process whereby we examine new information and process it.Familiar information and experiences are easily assimilated and fit or enhance our preexisting schema.However, novel concepts or understandings often have to be examined more deeply, leading us to the accommodation process whereby old ideas are
Aesthetics · Art · Economic Justice · Law and economics · Lens (geology · Optics · Political science · Social change · Social justice · Social transformation · Sociology · Through-the-lens metering · Transformation (genetics · Law · Music History and Culture
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |