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ERIC Number: EJ1112353
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016-Sep
Pages: 23
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1468-7984
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Dancing Literacy: Expanding Children's and Teachers' Literacy Repertoires through Embodied Knowing
Leonard, Alison E.; Hall, Anna H.; Herro, Danielle
Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, v16 n3 p338-360 Sep 2016
This paper explores dance as literacy. Specifically, it examines qualitative case study research findings and student examples from a dance artist-in-residence that explored curricular content using dance as its primary mode of enquiry and expression. Throughout the residency, students constructed meaning through their dance experiences in dynamic and autonomous ways, exhibiting complex literacy practices of enquiry and communication. Focusing on the kindergarten student participants' experiences, the authors highlight three themes in their dance literacy practices: (a) artistic autonomy, (b) embodied knowledge and (c) multimodality. As embodied knowledge, dance innately allowed for integrative literacy possibilities in the dance residency. The dance experiences observed and referenced in this research illustrate the complexities of dance as literacy, as both a unique literacy and in meaning making across literacies. Drawing on the findings of this study, the authors seek to inspire teachers to foster similar experiences to develop transformative literacy practices individually in their classrooms and collaboratively in their schools.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Kindergarten; Primary Education; Early Childhood Education
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Language: English
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