A review of For White folks who teach in the hood…and the rest of y’all too: Reality pedagogy and urban education

Abstract

This literature review provides a summary and analysis of Christopher Emdin’s For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood…and the Rest of Y’all Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education. Emdin proposes a theory of reality pedagogy and provides a framework, the Seven Cs, for practical implementation of the approach in the urban classroom. Keywords: urban education, culturally relevant pedagogy, diversity