Dr. Bronwen Low
Department Chair
Associate Member, Institute for Human Development and Well-Being (IHDW)
- Cultural studies
- Curriculum theory
- Arts integration
- Hip-hop studies
- Language and literacy studies
- Informal education
- Participatory media cultures
- Youth cultures
Dr. Low has been leading and participating in research, knowledge dissemination, and program and curriculum development projects with a primary focus on how to best support socially marginalized young people underserved by traditional schooling models and practices. Her research interests include the implications and challenges of popular youth culture, 鈥渦rban arts,鈥� and Hip-Hop culture for curriculum theory, literacy studies, pedagogy, and school transformation; community and digital media projects and pedagogies; translanguaging and the multilingual Montreal hip-hop scene; life stories and human rights education; connected learning and informal education; and, community-school-university partnerships.
Low, B. Brushwood Rose, C., and Salvio, P. (2016). Community-based media pedagogies: Relational listening in the commons. NY: Routledge.
Low, B. (2011). Slam school: Learning through conflict in the hip-hop and spoken word classroom. Stanford University Press.
Hoechsmann, M., & Low, B. (2008). Reading youth writing: 鈥淣ew鈥� literacy, cultural studies, and education. NY: Peter Lang.
Low, B., Proietti, Melissa, Lipset, Mike. (2018). Learning through resistance in an urban arts high school transformation project. Handbook of Cultural Studies in Education (Routledge, Editors Peter Trifonas and Susan Jagger.)
Low, B. (2016). Le hip-hop et le slam: Pratiques novatrices pour inclure la culture des jeunes dans l鈥檃pprentissage. In Maryse Potvin et al. La diversit茅 ethnoculturelle, religieuse et linguistique en 茅ducation au Qu茅bec (pp. 472-482). Qu茅bec: Fid猫s Education.
