{"id":138025,"date":"2019-06-24T10:14:36","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T08:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=138025"},"modified":"2019-06-24T10:39:01","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T08:39:01","slug":"john-robinson-j-rawls-released-new-book-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/john-robinson-j-rawls-released-new-book-album\/","title":{"rendered":"John Robinson & J Rawls Drop A New Book & The Album"},"content":{"rendered":"

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John Robinson & J Rawls<\/strong> released a new book Youth Culture Power: A #HipHopEd Guide to Building Student Teacher Relationships and Increasing Student Engagement <\/em><\/a>and followed it with an album as their alter ego JayARE<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

In the book the authors put forth their C.A.R.E. Model of youth pedagogy to help teachers create a positive learning environment by building relationships and lessons around students’ own culture. Instead of forcing students to give up the things they frequent, they feel teachers should discuss them and when possible, use them in lessons. The purpose of this book is to present a fresh take on why educators should not discount the culture of youth within the classroom.<\/p>\n

For the listeners JayARE<\/strong> consists of J Rawls<\/strong> produced, jazz-infused hip-hop tracks over which the emcees rhyme poetic on the state of educating inner city youth today. Rawls & Robinson<\/strong> list the many challenges; like culturally-biased standardized tests, the whitewashing of history in textbooks and the cutting of resources, but counter with a wealth of solutions; like relating to students, implementing new techniques in the classroom and simply being attentive to the happenings of their lives.<\/p>\n