Alprentice McCutchen
Ph.D Student in Urban Education
Alprentice’s 24 year career involves developing curricula that integrate Hip Hop, Socratic inquiry, debate, study trips to Egypt, Senegal, Gambia, Spain, Morocco, student action, performance based assessments, and project based learning. Alprentice is a history teacher at New Rochelle High School, and an Imam of Masjid Sabur Inc. in the Bronx, NY.
Contact
7182085996
Publications
McCutchen, A. A. & Rivera-McCutchen, R. L. (2017). From “Smooth Operator” to “Young, Gifted & Black”: Big Daddy Kane’s evolution as a metaphor for a praxis of critical care in leadership. In T. N. Watson, J. Brooks, & F. Beachum (Eds.), Educational Leadership and Music: Lessons for Tomorrow’s School Leaders, pp. 185-196. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing Inc. (50%)
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Educational_Leadership_and_Music/eQsoDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Educational+Leadership+and+Music:+Lessons+for+Tomorrow%E2%80%99s+School+Leaders&printsec=frontcover
Academic Interests
Critical pedagogy, agency-based curricula, Islamic tools for societal development, k-12 African American curricula development, project based teaching & learning, history/mechanisms for student social action, Debate curricula as a means for action, History as precedent for social action
Education
CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY September 2020-Present
Ph.D Student, Urban Education Program
Middlesex University’s Islamic College, London, England, Dec 2012
M.A. Islamic Studies
Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY, May, 1999
M.A. Social Studies Education
Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, May 1996
B.A. Double Major in History and African-American Studies with a senior concentration in United
States History, Study Abroad
Program, American University in Cairo, Egypt, fall 1994
