ERIC Number: ED605271
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2020-Jan-14
Pages: 136
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: 978-0-3674-2137-3
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Dance, Professional Practice, and the Workplace: Challenges and Opportunities for Dance Professionals, Students, and Educators. Routledge Research in Education
Pickard, Angela, Ed.; Risner, Doug, Ed.
Routledge Research in Education
Originally published as a special issue of "Research in Dance Education," now with an added chapter, this text acknowledges and celebrates the increasingly diverse careers and employment networks in which dance professionals and dance educators are engaged. Addressing issues and developments relating to the workplace of dance, the text explores what it means to transcend the boundary between dance as passion, and dance as employment. Chapters explore challenges of professional practice including limitations on access, precarity, bodily risk, gender inequality, and sexual harassment, and challenge the status quo to offer readers new ways of thinking about dance, and how this might translate into professional practice and work. Ultimately celebrating the passion which motivates dancers to embark on a professional career, and highlighting the elation and joy which such employment can bring, this volume encourages dance professionals, students, and educators to imagine things differently and develop teaching approaches, curricula, work places, and communities which capitalise on the diversity and dedication of individuals in the field. This text will be of great interest to graduate and postgraduate students, researchers, academics, professionals in the field of Dance, Dance Education, Choreography and related art forms, Curriculum studies and Sociology of Education.
Descriptors: Dance, Dance Education, Teachers, Career Choice, Human Body, Reflection, African American Culture, Technology Uses in Education, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Tenure, Sexual Harassment, Violence, Employment
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Publication Type: Books; Collected Works - General
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
Audience: Students; Researchers
Language: English
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