Philosophy is a hard topic to decipher and teach, especially to younger students. RoadWorks, an organization that teaches social sciences use Drill Music as an opportunity to meet young people on their own intellectual turf. BBC has the details:
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It’s been a couple of years since large sections of the media first started panicking about drill music, questioning if the genre’s often violent lyrics were contributing to knife crime in London – sometimes claiming outright that they were.
For the youth workers helping young people navigate daily life, it was never that black and white.
Instead Ciaran Thapar saw drill as an opportunity to meet young people on their own terms.
“How can we use this undeniably organically popular type of music, and our understanding of that music, as a way of connecting with young people who otherwise are being lost to the system right now at unprecedented rates?”
Combining drill and education felt natural for Ciaran, a writer who studied political theory.
“You literally have kids that are coming into the classroom bouncing off the walls and by the end of it they’re calm, they’re having conversations. And that’s because we’ve met them on their intellectual turf.”
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Source: neatorama