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Darren Chetty
Darren Chetty is a lecturer (teaching) at University College London (UCL) and an affiliate at the UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation. He taught in primary schools for over twenty years and now works with schools on policy, curriculum and pedagogy. Darren co-ordinated Power to the Pupils, a hip hop collective that produced five albums, written and recorded by primary school children in Hackney, London. In 2013, he established the UK #HipHopEd Seminar Series for hip hop educators and artists, and the philosophy for cyphers course, incorporating hip hop pedagogy and philosophy for children. His doctoral research focused on education, philosophy for children, multiculturalism and racism. He co-edited Critical Philosophy of Race and Education (Routledge, 2020) and has co-edited Special Issues of Wasafiri and Ethics and Education. Darren is co-editor, with Hanan Issa, Grug Muse and Iestyn Tyne, of Welsh (Plural): Essays on the Future of Wales (Repeater, 2022). He writes, with Karen Sands O’Connor, a regular column for Books for Keeps on the representation of racially minoritized people in British children’s literature. Darren co-authored, with Jeffrey Boakye, What Is Masculinity? Why Does It Matter? And Other Big Questions (Wayland, 2019). His first picture book will be published in the United Kingdom and United States in 2025.
Contact: University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK.