Critical Hip Hop Pedagogy as a Form of Liberatory Praxis: How can hip hop be used as a tool to promote social justice and youth activism in the classroom? What is the relationship between hip-hop culture and the development of critical consciousness among students?

Akom’s “Critical Hip Hop Pedagogy as a Form of Liberatory Praxis” discusses the teaching strategy known as Critical Hip Hop Pedagogy. He says that young children begin to develop meaningful strategies for pursuing social justice, and take increasingly public roles for advocating. Hip hop can be utilized as a tool to get students to get them actively engage in classrooms.

The relationship between hip hop culture and the development of critical consciousness amongst the students revolves around the ability of hip hop culture being able to engage with non-white cultures and tackle difficult topics.studying hip hop culture allows students to take into account the perspective of various communities. This improves  their education because they gain a better understanding of the world and are able to willingly   identify the inequities in their daily lives.