Hip Hop is Global Education- Part I

Since I believe that hip hop culture and global education are very closely linked in application and require culturally competent educators and I think it is useful to state some of the learning outcomes I hope to encourage...

Upon graduation from high school students should be able to:

• recognize global interdependence and its impact on their lives as well as their impact on the world,
• research countries, cultures and peoples in a realistic, broad but deep way, understanding that the process is often as important as or more important than the product,
• demonstrate and promote respect of all people, regardless of race, gender, age, ethnicity, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, mental or physical ability, or socio-economic status,
• communicate with people from multiple regions of the world as the capability to communicate in several languages and across various cultural differences is an essential skill,
• see issues from a variety of viewpoints to aid in problem solving and conflict resolution and
• analyze themselves while discovering other cultures.

Of course, the question is "How do we promote and ensure the achievement of these goals?" And so the journey begins!