In her talk “The OUTKAST Imagination,” Joycelyn will share with you how Hip Hop has influenced her life and the unique benefits it can bring to education. She’ll also share more about her Four Four Beat Project and what it means for educators hoping to infuse hip hop pedagogy into their classrooms.
Dr. Joycelyn Wilson, an ethnographer in the social and cultural foundations of education, is assistant professor in the Department of Learning Sciences and Technologies at Virginia Tech, and founding director of the Four Four Beat Project (www.fourfourbp.org), currently the first hip hop-based digital archive and pedagogies collaborative located at an institute of technology. Dr. Wilson is an Emmy-nominated documentary film producer, and Hiphop Archive alumnus fellow at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. Her current interests meet at the intersection of Hip Hop culture, education, and technology – particularly as it relates to the development of STEM and social justice capacities of minority youth and youth influencers. As an educational anthropologist, Dr. Wilson also focuses on ways in which the Hip Hop aesthetic intersect with ethnographic research methods.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx
