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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Dance education"”.
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Dance Education in an Urban Kindergarten Classroom
<p>Incorporating arts education can be a valuable intervention for students in an urban setting. Teaching through the arts can act as an initial, Tier One intervention, for students who exhibit disruptive behaviors in the classroom, due to trauma, as well as benefit the overall classroom culture. …
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Toward mind/body unity: Seeking the deeper promise of dance education
… is an issue in the current practice of Western dance forms.
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Towards the Construction of a National Dance Education Policy in Jamaica:Public Education Curriculum and Ownership
… (551 - 479 BC) Fundamentally about "doing," Dance is a strong element of Jamaican social and cultural expression. This dissertation is based on the premise that in order to fully educate Jamaica's children and to accomplish "National Outcome 2: World Class Education and Training" of the …
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Creativity within late primary age dance education: unlocking expert specialist dance teachers' conceptions and approaches
… investigation of three expert specialist dance teachers' conceptions of and approaches to creativity with late primary age children in England carried out using a multi-case case study approach. These specialists were working in a variety of educational settings and had extensive …
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"DADDY, ROOT ME IN": TETHERING YOUNG SONS IN THE CONTEXT OF MALE, INTER-GENERATIONAL, CHILD-CENTERED, DANCE EDUCATION
This study of the dance experiences of related men and boys pursues overlapping and related research goals. It is an investigation about reflective teaching practice in the process of developing an emergent curriculum for this multi-generational group of men and boys. It is an investigation about …
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Trust and Humourliation: How Can a Teacher's Use of Humour Cause Humiliation and Impact the Learner's Experience of Trust Within Higher Dance Education in China?
… a vital role in maintaining the operation of the education system, promoting educational reform, and improving learners' learning experience. However, in dance classrooms in China, learners' trust is being undermined by teachers' intentional or unintentional words and deeds. Teachers use …
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Becoming Undisciplined: Interdisciplinary Issues and Methods in Dance Studies Dissertations from 2007-2009
… the theoretical identity of the field of dance studies as an academic discipline and to produce a feminist intervention into the phenomena of disembodied scholarship, while asking questions about disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity within dance studies historically and today. My primary …
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Babassoró de andanças por Manaus e Iranduba: gestão, produção e professorado em dança
… proposed to the Professional Master's Degree in Dance at UFBA, consists of records of my work as a dance professional, in the process of management, cultural production and teaching at a cultural institution in the city of Manaus, a school in the interior of Amazonas and at the Manaus Military …
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Why we dance: a community autoethnographic study of four African American community dance artists
… American and other nonwestern and non-White dance traditions are a part of cultural expression, historic preservation, a reflection of lived experiences, and a part of everyday life. In many dance programs at colleges and universities, culturally specific dance practices are often not …
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Children's Dance-Making: An Autoethnographic Path Towards Transformative Critical Pedagogy
… examines, analyzes, andinterprets children’s dances created by seventeen nine- 11 year olds attending aMidwestern, urban elementary school. The significance of this longitudinal study is in the offering of a fresh perspective on children’s dance-making as a mode of embodied understanding and …
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Experiences of precarity: Oral histories of K12 dance teachers in Delhi
The experiences of dance teachers in K12 schools in Delhi of negotiating the contemporary education space; navigating the tension between artistic aspirations and making a livelihood through dance; of dealing with questions of class, caste, language, religion, ageing, and gender are vital to …
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What Remains: Dance as Resilience and Embodied Memory
This thesis explores dance as a tool for resistance and embodied memory. It examines how movement can serve as both a personal and collective response to trauma, engaging with themes of structured violence, intergenerational pain, and the reclamation of agency. Through choreographic research, …
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Digital enhancement of senior secondary dance assessment
… high stakes assessments in a senior secondary dance course in Western Australia (WA). The participants comprised twenty students from one school who were enrolled in ATAR Dance for 2016/17 and ten WA secondary dance education experts. A mixed method embedded design allowed for the analysis of …
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Researching First-Year Students' Lived Experiences in a University Dance Program
… students with the aim of improving quality of educational life and student motivation to stay in school (Greenfield et al., 2013). First-year students are viewed as vulnerable to attrition as most leavers depart during or immediately following year one (van der Zanden et al., 2018). This is the …
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Embodying the Canadian University Dance Transition Experience: A Collective Case Study
… social, psychosocial and cognitive dimensions of dance majors transition from multiple pre-university learning environments into their current Canadian university dance program. Three of Canadas largest university dance degree granting programs were chosen as field sites based on their relative …
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AN EXEMPLAR-APPRENTICE MODEL FOR TEACHING DANCE COMPOSITION THROUGH PERFORMANCE IN SECONDARY EDUCATION (NSW. AUSTRALIA)
Dance education in New South Wales focuses on the three components of the artform - performance, composition and appreciation. However,, historically there has been a prescribed emphasis on performance on the assumption that performance informs composition and appreciation. In preliminary …
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An investigation into the effectiveness of teaching and support that deaf children receive in dance classes in Primary schools
… which deaf pupils receive in Primary school dance classes. Adopting a social model of disability, I emphasise the need to establish a learning environment which promotes a positive view of deafness and the use of sign language. This project posed three research questions. First, what support …
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The high barre: an investigation of barre for the performing arts in higher education
… suitable for the performing arts in higher education, with potential applications in the fields of medicine, rehabilitation, health & wellness, and education.<br/><br/>New information about Barre is presented through ethnographic interviews, critical analysis of the existing literature and …
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The impact of dance/movement classes on adolescent behavior in an urban high school setting
The inclusion of the arts in education has been undervalued and overlooked by many public school districts throughout the country. As a result of cutbacks, dance programs in educational settings have become an afterthought. In this study the relationship between dance/movement classes and …
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