Getting Real II: Hip Hop Pedagogy, Performance and Culture in the Classroom and Beyond

UW-Madison Professor and Kellner Family Chair in Urban Education Gloria Ladson-Billings is joined by UW-Madison School of Dance and First Wave Hip-Hop Theater Ensemble Creative Director Professor Christopher Walker to discuss the teaching theories behind the nation's only college-level program dedicated to using hip-hop as both an art form and a pedagogical tool to improve the academic success of students who remain marginalized in our schools.