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de Villiers, Alethea Cassandra – International Journal of Music Education, 2021
Cultural hegemony permeates society and is spread through social institutions. These institutions socialize people into the norms, values and beliefs of the dominant social groups. Moreover, cultural hegemony is spread and perpetuated through education in the form of compulsory education, a national curriculum, national assessments, as well as the…
Descriptors: Music Education, Curriculum Development, National Curriculum, Educational Philosophy
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Huddy, Avril – Research in Dance Education, 2017
Digital technology has long been integrated into the mainstream learning environment in a variety of ways from basic teaching delivery tools to specific courseware; however, it has struggled to make an impact in the dance technique studio. Despite the enthusiastic and alacritous integration of digital technologies within the repertoire and…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Dance Education, Learner Engagement, Cooperative Learning
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Hanrahan, Stephanie J.; Pedro, Rachel A. – Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education, 2017
The purpose of this study was to determine students' perceptions of team-building activities within a university Latin dance course. Students (N = 30) completed an evaluation of the team-building activities and wrote reflective essays about their experiences in the course. The course consisted of twenty 90-minute classes. In the third class…
Descriptors: Dance Education, Teamwork, Reflection, Essays
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Fleming, Josephine; Gibson, Robyn; Anderson, Michael; Martin, Andrew J. – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2020
As school education systems worldwide adopt standardized performance measures, teacher effectiveness frameworks have become more influential. This article draws on Australian mixed methods research that aimed to understand the processes behind quality arts pedagogy. Following an in-depth quantitative study, nine high-performing case study arts…
Descriptors: Art Education, Educational Quality, Case Studies, Teaching Methods
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Ostashewski, Nathaniel; Reid, Doug; Ostashewski, Marcia – Journal of Dance Education, 2016
This article presents action research that identified iPad tablet technology-supported teaching strategies in a dance classroom context. Dance classrooms use instructor-accessed music as a regular element of lessons, but video is both challenging and time-consuming to produce or display. The results of this study highlight how the Apple iPad…
Descriptors: Action Research, Handheld Devices, Telecommunications, Technology Uses in Education
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Pope, Joan – Australian Journal of Music Education, 2014
The London School of Dalcroze Eurhythmics (LSDE) was established in 1913, and a significant figure in its history was the remarkable Cecilia John, one of seven Australians to complete the three-year course between 1917 and 1927. Apart from two short visits to Australia, John lived and taught in England for the remainder of her life. Following the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music Education, Music, Teaching Methods
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Blevins, Peta; Erskine, Shona; Hopper, Luke; Moyle, Gene – Journal of Dance Education, 2020
Professional dance careers require years of intensive training. Stress experienced during training must be balanced with adequate recovery to prevent overtraining and burnout. Little is known, however, about how dancers achieve recovery-stress balance. This study examined dancers' recollection of stress and recovery during their vocational dance…
Descriptors: Dance Education, Stress Variables, Burnout, Prevention
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Wrench, Alison; Garrett, Robyne – Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education, 2016
In developed economies, such as Australia, schooling is heavily impacted by neo-liberal and neo-conservative agendas. Policies suggest a homogeneity in students that fails to reflect regional contexts of inequality. For the new Australian Curriculum, which includes Health and Physical Education (AC: HPE), this logic prioritises consistency in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Justice, Equal Education, Disadvantaged Youth
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Jefferson-Buchanan, Rachael – JTRM in Kinesiology, 2015
The following article comprises a case study that considers the potential for an Indigenous digital resource to be used within a dance undergraduate context. In this manner, suggestions for dance pedagogy and practice are offered in relation to the Indigenous Education Strategy at Charles Sturt University, together with a university digital…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Dance Education, Undergraduate Study, Indigenous Populations
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Joseph, Dawn – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2013
Australia is proud of its rich and varied array of the Arts depicting a range of cultural diversity formed by ongoing migration. Although the complex issues of dance, culture and identity are interconnected, forming a multicultural society in Australia, dance education is a powerful platform to transmit and promote togetherness where understanding…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dance Education, Multicultural Education, Student Teacher Attitudes
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O'Flynn, Gabrielle; Pryor, Zoe; Gray, Tonia – Journal of Dance Education, 2013
The purpose of this paper is to examine nine Australian young women's embodied experiences of dance. The young women were all amateur dancers involved in weekly jazz, tap, and ballet dance classes at the same dance studio. In this paper, embodiment is defined as multidimensional (Burkitt 1999). The authors explore the ways the corporeal and the…
Descriptors: Females, Dance Education, Foreign Countries, Femininity
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Snook, Barbara Helen; Buck, Ralph – Research in Dance Education, 2014
This paper reflects upon international arts education action and relative local in-action. The first half of the paper provides a brief narrative of the World Alliance for Arts Education's advocacy work and the development of the UNESCO Seoul Agenda: Goals for the development of arts education. The second half of the paper highlights a dance…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Art Education, Advocacy, International Organizations
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Barton, Georgina; Ryan, Mary – Higher Education Research and Development, 2014
Reflection is not a new concept in the teaching of higher education and is often an important component of many disciplinary courses. Despite this, past research shows that while there are examples of rich reflective strategies used in some areas of higher education, most approaches to, and conceptualisations of, reflective learning and assessment…
Descriptors: Reflective Teaching, Teaching Methods, Case Studies, Higher Education
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Bennett, Dawn; Bridgstock, Ruth – International Journal of Music Education, 2015
Unlike the work available in many creative disciplines, musicians and dancers have the possibility of company-based employment; however, participants outweigh the number of positions. As a result, many graduates become "enforced entrepreneurs" as they shape their work to meet personal and professional needs. The similarities between…
Descriptors: Music Education, Dance Education, Educational Practices, Cohort Analysis
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Williams, John – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2014
This study was carried out within the context of a requirement for every Australian Capital Territory Education and Training Directorate (ACT ETD) high school to include Indigenous perspectives across all areas of the curriculum. For the first time ever in the case study school reported in this article, two Torres Strait Island dances were taught…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dance, Dance Education, Case Studies
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