Thuraya Brennan

Culturally relevant pedagogy will look like diversity in my future classroom. Posters of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Malala Yousafzai, and Rosa Park, joined with multitudes of other strong and courageous individuals will adorn my classroom. Materials that includes protagonists of BIPOC and LGBTQ+ communities will be abundant, as well as poems and short stories that celebrate Indigenous voices and share the experiences of those from minority groups. Experiences of new immigrants and refugees will be used in the classroom as well,…

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There are several ways in which hip hop can be used as a tool to promote social justice and and youth activism in the classroom. For one, music is a strong medium used by artists to emphasize a specific platform and explain certain topics in a more poetic manner. The majority of students listen to music everyday, and have access to songs that speak on such topics both in and out of the classroom setting. Hip hop expresses criticism of…

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I have struggled to write this blog post. This is mainly due to the horrific acts of the author of this week’s reading, Benjamin Levin. The prompt of this blog post revolves around the ways in which curriculums are formulated “in large measure by other considerations—ideology, personal values, issues in the public domain, and interests. Curriculum decisions are often part of a much larger public debate that often extends beyond education to larger questions of public goods”. With this in…

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