ERIC Number: EJ1304871
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Publication Date: 2021-Sep
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Creative Dance as Experiential Learning in State Primary Education: The Potential Benefits for Children
Payne, Helen; Costas, Barry
Journal of Experiential Education, v44 n3 p277-292 Sep 2021
Background: In the United Kingdom, creative dance is classified as part of physical education rather than an important core subject. Purpose: Taking the U.K. National Curriculum as an example, the article's primary aim is to examine literature exploring the benefits of creative dance, for children aged 3 to 11 years in mainstream state education, to evaluate whether creative dance can be categorized as experiential learning. Methodology/Approach: The literature review included key words in several databases and arrived at potential benefits which can be framed within experiential learning. Findings/Conclusions: The findings identify benefits of creative dance in socioemotional, arts-based, transferable, embodied, physical, and cognitive learning. Conceptualizing creative dance as experiential learning could support it filling a more central role in the curriculum. Implications: This article recontextualizes the role of creative dance in children's learning through reviewing related literature. Creative dance might play a more central role in the curriculum when the benefits and its process are framed as experiential learning.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Creativity, Dance, Physical Education, Children, Preadolescents, Experiential Learning, Creative Activities, Social Development, Emotional Development, Physical Development, Cognitive Development, Aesthetics, Transfer of Training, Psychomotor Skills
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom
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