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Teaching Creative Dance in School -- A Case Study from Physical Education in Norway
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Ørbaek, Trine; Engelsrud, Gunn – Research in Dance Education, 2021
In this qualitative case study, the authors examine teacher students' experiences from teaching creative dance in their practicum in physical education (PE) in Norwegian schools. From a phenomenological perspective, and taking concepts such as "participatory sense-making," "embodied affectivity" and "embodied…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dance Education, Creativity, Physical Education
Exploring New Methodological Options: Collaborative Teaching Involving Song, Dance and the Alexander Technique
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Kvammen, Anne Cecilie Røsjø; Hagen, Johanne Karen; Parker, Stephen – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2020
In an attempt to bridge the gap between the distinct pedagogical strategies often employed in the respective fields of song and dance, this study investigates how collaborative teaching and dialogue can serve as a starting point in finding new teaching and learning methods. This pilot study involving three teacher-researchers and three students…
Descriptors: Teacher Collaboration, Dance Education, Teaching Methods, Singing
Interfering with the Lived Field of Dance Pedagogy from Organizational and Leadership Studies Perspectives--An Explorative Intervention with Performing and Teaching Dance Artists
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Østern, Tone Pernille; Irgens, Eirik J. – Research in Dance Education, 2018
One Saturday, in November in 2014, a researcher made an explorative intervention with 22 professional performing and teaching dance artists on the independent dance field in Norway. Through the three-hour-long intervention, the researcher and participants dived into questions about choreographic processes and dance pedagogy in contemporary times.…
Descriptors: Dance Education, Dance, Teaching Methods, Intervention
Mental Health, Eating Behaviour and Injuries in Professional Dance Students
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Fostervold Mathisen, T. F.; Sundgot-Borgen, C.; Anstensrud, B.; Sundgot-Borgen, J. – Research in Dance Education, 2022
A high frequency of mental health challenges and injuries in professional dancers necessitate a better understanding of the complexity of such symptoms, and to explore differences according to sex, academic year and performance levels. Professional dance students were recruited to evaluate symptoms of depression and anxiety (SCL-10), resilience…
Descriptors: Eating Habits, Depression (Psychology), Anxiety, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
Thriving, Striving, or Just Surviving? TD Learning Conditions, Motivational Processes and Well-Being among Norwegian Elite Performers in Music, Ballet, and Sport
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Haraldsen, Heidi M.; Nordin-Bates, Sanna M.; Abrahamsen, Frank Eirik; Halvari, Hallgeir – Roeper Review, 2020
This study explored the motivational experiences of nine successful elite performers in ballet, music, and swimming at Norwegian talent development (TD) schools. Semistructured interviews were conducted. Thematic analysis revealed that the performers navigated within and between several contextual layers, characterized by egalitarian values,…
Descriptors: Well Being, Performance, Self Determination, Foreign Countries
Precision Teaching, Frequency-Building, and Ballet Dancing
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Lokke, Gunn E. H.; Lokke, Jon A.; Arntzen, Erick – Journal of Precision Teaching and Celeration, 2008
This article reports the effectiveness of a brief intervention aimed at achieving fluency in basic ballet moves in a 9-year-old Norwegian girl by use of frequency-building and Precision Teaching procedures. One nonfluent ballet move was pinpointed, and instructional and training procedures designed to increase the frequency of accurate responding…
Descriptors: Dance Education, Foreign Countries, Females, Children