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Sumana Sen Mandala – Journal of Dance Education, 2024
The need for a shift in approach to dance education and non-Eurocentric dance forms in postsecondary dance programs is apparent. This paper begins with a fundamental "why" and then offers the frameworks of gnosis (knowledge by perception) and episteme (knowledge by systematic study) and process-based teaching-learning as viable…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dance Education, Postsecondary Education, Cultural Awareness
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Mabingo, Alfdaniels – Journal of Dance Education, 2018
Over the years, dances from African cultures have been viewed in the Western world as caricatures of exotic bodies and representations of experiences that are abundant in the natural order of things. Valentino Y. Mudimbe (1988) has defined this otherization and objectification as the invention of Africa. With the continuous mobility of people and…
Descriptors: African Culture, Dance Education, Teaching Methods, Teacher Attitudes