Chucky

2020 ◽  
pp. 299-356
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Rap Music ◽  
Basketball Player ◽  
Coping Mechanism

Chucky is the product of an interracial union; his mother is Navajo while his father is Black and Mexican. Along with his three siblings, he was placed in the custody of his maternal aunt, Isabelle, because of a very tragic incident. At the age of five, he witnessed his father murder his mother. Despite all the turmoil, Chucky is remarkably well adjusted and level-headed. Unlike many of his peers, he has managed to stay out of any serious trouble. He has chosen to respond to heartache with humor, and he has developed a reputation as a prankster. With his gregarious personality, it is no surprise that Chucky is among the most popular students in his high school, which is no doubt buttressed by his standing as a start basketball player. Along with rap music, basketball is his chief coping mechanism for dealing with his adolescent angst. This chapter introduces Chucky.

“Something You Can Look Back On”: Teacher Candidates, Rap Music, and P-12 Social Studies

2016 ◽  
Vol 55 (8-9) ◽  
pp. 1224-1250
Author(s):  
Tracey Kumar
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Teacher Education ◽  
Social Studies ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Teacher Candidates ◽  
Rap Music ◽  
Learning Experiences ◽  
Lesson Plans ◽  
Traditional Classroom ◽  
Look Back

Although several studies highlight the integration of hip-hop-based education (HHBE) into teacher education workshops and coursework, little is known about the use of HHBE by the teachers and teacher candidates who take part in these learning experiences. Toward such a contribution, this study examines how teacher candidates proposed to integrate rap into lesson plans designed for middle and high school social studies classes in an urban intensive setting. The findings indicate that the teacher candidates’ proposed uses of rap not only privilege their own preferences and experiences but also position rap as subordinate to traditional classroom-based texts.

Atypical Location of Low-Back Pain in a High School Basketball Player

2015 ◽  
Vol 94 (10) ◽  
pp. e94-e95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eliana Cardozo ◽  
Richard G. Chang ◽  
Darryl B. Sneag ◽  
James Wyss
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Low Back Pain ◽  
Back Pain ◽  
Basketball Player ◽  
Low Back

Jordan Russell Davis

2019 ◽  
pp. 173-226
Author(s):  
William Cheng
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Student ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Rap Music ◽  
Phone Calls ◽  
Murder Trial

Chapter 6 closes the book with an extended investigation into how musical judgments can kill—how someone can be killed while listening to music he loves, and for refusing to turn it down when asked. In 2012, a forty-seven-year-old white man named Michael Dunn heard loud rap music coming from a nearby red car containing four black youths. He approached. Words were exchanged. A couple of minutes later, Dunn fired ten bullets at the car and killed one of its passengers, seventeen-year-old high school student Jordan Davis. Dunn claimed Davis had threatened him with a shotgun. No such gun was ever found. During the murder trial, Dunn’s lawyer, Cory Strolla, leveraged racist stereotypes of rap to paint dehumanizing (uncivilized, savage, criminal) and superhumanizing (formidable, fearsome, brawny) portraits of these youths. By contrast, Strolla depicted Dunn as someone who himself loved music, including “any type of hip-hop,” the stuff “that the kids listen to.” The chapter taps into various materials that were either purposely excluded from or inadvertently overlooked by media coverage: Michael Dunn’s jailhouse letters and phone calls, transcriptions of courtroom sidebars, pretrial documents, evidence technicians’ reports, and 911 records.

School Perceptions of Truant Adolescent Girls

1981 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 197-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gayle L. Zieman ◽  
Gerald P. Benson
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Adolescent Girls ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Behavior Problem ◽  
Coping Mechanism ◽  
Educational Programming ◽  
School Problems ◽  
High School Girls ◽  
Negative Perceptions ◽  
School Girls

Due to increased misbehavior by girls there is a growing need to understand these students. Knowing how behavior-problem girls perceive school is necessary for effective educational programming. To investigate these perceptions, 15 truant junior-high school girls were interviewed in-depth. Their responses were compared to those of 15 nontruant girls and 15 truant boys. The truant girls moderately disliked school and found teachers to be unfair and excessively concerned with minor rules. Consistently, the truant girls showed less negative perceptions and less asocial behavior than the boys. The girls also differed by being more variable in behavior and attitudes. The girls more often than the boys appeared to have personal conflicts which accentuate school problems. It is suggested that schools should view truancy as a coping mechanism for avoiding discomfort in school, and that behavior-problem girls should be dealt with in an individualized manner.

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