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Hernandez, Barbara L. Michiels; Strickland, George – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance (JOPERD), 2005
Student safety is an important goal when teaching physically active skills, and school safety standards should be considered as important as the dance content standards for students. More than being complementary, safety standards and content standards are functionally related, because "consistently enforcing safe practices within the…
Descriptors: School Safety, Physical Education, Dance Education, Environmental Standards
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Gilsdorf, Rie Algeo – Journal of Dance Education, 2004
A history of the outstanding K-12 dance program in Vancouver, Washington, is provided, including various strategies used to promote its growth from a few pilot elementary schools through middle schools to an arts magnet high school. Numerous changes have been weathered by the professional dance staff, including certification challenges instigated…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, Dance Education
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Callahan-Russell, Colleen – Journal of Dance Education, 2004
This article evaluates strengths and limitations of some studio training. It focuses on values that private studio students bring to the public school setting. One teacher uses this as an opportunity to reflect on and claim her own values and desire to develop students as artists.
Descriptors: Public Schools, Dance, Dance Education, Teachers
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Risner, Doug – Research in Dance Education, 2002
This article explores the ways in which gay male presence and contribution to dance education in the US is minimised in order to legitimate male participation and to gain wider social acceptance of dance. Current muted discourses regarding homosexuality in dance pedagogy are not only shortsighted, but also unwittingly reproduce narrow stereotypes…
Descriptors: Dance Education, Criticism, Group Unity, Homosexuality
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Koff, Susan R. – Quest, 2005
Dance Education can be considered an aspect of everyday living when using the correct definition of dance education. Rather than referring to the rarified form of movement that we encounter on the concert stage, dance education is the education of our moving selves with the goal as self expression. This can be initiated as an aspect of the initial…
Descriptors: Self Expression, Dance Education, Young Children, Movement Education
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Gregory, Katie – Research in Dance Education, 2005
This critical analysis focuses on the movement vocabulary and interaction of dancers in selected sections of the filmed version of "White Man Sleeps" (1988) by Siobhan Davies. The choreography is divided into five distinct parts, in accordance with divisions in the musical accompaniment from which the piece takes its name, a suite of…
Descriptors: Movement Education, Foreign Countries, Art Criticism, Dance
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Dearborn, Karen; Ross, Rachael – Journal of Dance Education, 2006
In the dance studio, the mirror can play a large role in the dancer's learning process. Research on learning and memory shows that reducing the amount of feedback during training enhances long-term motor skill retention and that more externally focused attention may aid performance. Research testing the effectiveness of training with a mirror as a…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Dance, Dance Education, Testing
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Delamont, Sara – Ethnography and Education, 2006
The Brazilian martial art, "capoeira", is popular in many countries outside Brazil, including the UK. "Capoeira" is generally taught by Brazilians whose livelihood depends on recruiting and retaining enough paying customers to keep their classes economically viable and socially pleasurable for the students. The teachers also…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Foreign Countries, Recruitment, Teacher Responsibility
Jobling, Anne; Virji-Babul, Nazin; Nichols, Doug – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance (JOPERD), 2006
Learning to move and moving to learn are vital aspects of every child's growth and development. Physical therapists and educators have consistently advocated the importance of being involved in a range of movement activities and games. Movement can provide an avenue for learning and interaction with others and can be linked to language and…
Descriptors: Dance Education, Down Syndrome, Physical Therapy, Creative Development
Plevnik, Primoz; Podobnik, Ursula – Eurydice, 2008
This paper focuses on Slovenia's arts and cultural education. The Ministry of Education and Sport is responsible for laying down the aims for cultural and creative dimensions of education. Concerning the creation of the curriculum related to culture and creativity (both within education) and the arts curriculum, most curricular decisions are made…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Art Education, Cultural Education, Educational Administration
Allen, Anne; Coley, Janis – 1995
This volume contains 30 unit suggestions for dance lessons in elementary or secondary education. The volume opens with a preface, a discussion of the value of dance in education and of how learning takes place in dance, and a glossary. Each of the units that follow is arranged in sets of five lessons on a theme. Each lesson has a structure:…
Descriptors: Dance Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Human Body
Allen, Anne; Coley, Janis – 1995
This volume contains 30 unit suggestions for dance lessons in elementary or secondary education. The volume opens with a preface, a discussion of the value of dance in education and of how learning takes place in dance, and a glossary. Each of the units that follow is arranged in sets of five lessons on a theme. Each lesson has a structure:…
Descriptors: Dance Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Human Body
Ballew, Jerry L. – 1995
This paper reports on the critical role that marketing can have on the health, physical education, recreation, and dance professions (HPERD) and on a national survey of college administrators in the field and their attitudes and practices at the college level. The first half of the paper briefly traces the growing impact of marketing on service…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrators, College Administration, Dance Education
Mirus, Judith; And Others – 1993
This curriculum guide, an information and planning resource in dance education, is intended to advance the teaching of dance in Minnesota's public schools. The guide is intended for use by both generalist and specialist teachers, grades K-12, in a variety of situations. "Part One: Orientation" includes a discussion of the use and purpose of the…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Curriculum Guides, Dance Education, Educational Objectives
Brehm, Mary Ann; Kampfe, Charlene M. – 1997
Creative dance improvisation involves both the movement of the body with awareness and the awakening of the creative spirit. The basic elements of creative dance improvisation--force, time, and space--are examined with a view toward how this approach to dance can be a means for growth in the general education of anyone throughout their lives.…
Descriptors: Children, Creative Expression, Dance, Dance Education
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