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Warburton, Edward C. – Journal of Dance Education, 2017
Diplomacy is the art of relationships: the ability to work with individual to international-level concerns in a sensitive way. Like the diplomat, dance artists and educators know that success requires sensitivity to rapidly changing situational demands. A growing body of research suggests that the nonverbal art form of dance can be an effective…
Descriptors: International Relations, International Educational Exchange, Dance Education, Intercultural Communication
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Pentz, Julie L. – Childhood Education, 2017
Tap to Togetherness is a unique program designed to build and enhance family relationships through tap dance steps. Kansas State University researchers from the School of Music, Theatre and Dance and the College of Human Ecology, led by Julie L. Pentz, Associate Professor of Dance, Director of the K-State Dance Program, developed the program.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Programs, Family Relationship, Dance Education
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Guarino, Lindsay – Journal of Dance Education, 2015
This article discusses a new debate which has emerged for dancers. For many years dancers debated dance as art versus entertainment. This age-old debate still exists without a consensus, yet there is suddenly a new generation of dancers with a fresh debate. Legions of young performers are fervently proclaiming that their dance is actually a sport.…
Descriptors: Dance Education, Athletics, Competition, Physical Activities
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Hall, Joshua M. – Journal of Social Science Education, 2016
Purpose: The aim of the research was to determine the benefits of applying the new Figuration philosophy of dance, based in part on Plato, to civic education. Design/methodology: A close phenomenological reading of Plato's "The Laws," with a strategic focus on its account of the concept of posture. Findings: Plato considers posture to be…
Descriptors: Dance Education, Human Posture, Civics, Citizenship Education
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McCarthy-Brown, Nyama; Carter, Selene – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2019
Racism is a social construct that is inscribed on the body. In this study, two dance educators working in the U.S. engage the body in the dismantling of racism. This case study is presented on teaching anti-racism in dance education, through embodied dance making processes. For this study, over sixty undergraduate students participated in…
Descriptors: Racial Bias, Dance Education, Case Studies, Teaching Methods
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Clegg, Helen; Owton, Helen; Allen-Collinson, Jacquelyn – Journal of Dance Education, 2019
Dance provides both psychological and physical benefits, and yet many boys miss out due to societal perceptions surrounding the feminization of dance. These perceptions can lead to the bullying of boys who dance. Because dance teachers are in a unique position to engage boys in dance, it is important to investigate their perceptions. This article…
Descriptors: Males, Dance, Dance Education, Foreign Countries
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Cleland Donnelly, Frances E.; Millar, Vicki Faden – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2019
Creative dance is an engaging and empowering educational medium. Creative dance provides children with a comfortable, noncompetitive arena where they can explore, discover, and share what they think and feel in the purest of bodily expression. This manuscript highlights a standards based creative dance lesson designed to educate elementary…
Descriptors: Dance Education, Teaching Methods, Interdisciplinary Approach, Standards
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Reihana-Morunga, Tia – Research in Dance Education, 2022
This article presents a critical consideration of the ways in which specialist dance teachers in New Zealand state secondary schools respond to curriculum expectations to incorporate Maori arts content into their lessons. Disparity between Maori and non-Maori achievement is evident in the state schooling system. More than 20% of students in New…
Descriptors: Dance, Dance Education, Ethnic Groups, Pacific Islanders
Australian Government Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency, 2022
Work produced during a course of study in the creative arts may differ from assessment in other disciplines in the following ways: (1) it is non-text-based: work may consist of a performance, video recording, digital or interactive work, music composition, audio recording, or physical artefact; and (2) it is creative: works demonstrate individual…
Descriptors: Integrity, Creative Activities, Art Education, Video Technology
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An, Song A.; Tillman, Daniel A.; Hachey, Alyse C. – Research in Dance Education, 2021
This study aimed to empirically investigate preservice teachers' learning experiences during a series of geometry-themed choreography and dance activities. These pedagogical tasks were designed to examine the challenges and solutions that participants experienced when exercising their spatial reasoning abilities, particularly during the transition…
Descriptors: Dance Education, Elementary School Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Teaching Methods
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Sato, Takahiro; Suzuki, Naoki; Eckert, Kevin; Ellison, Douglas W. – Journal of Dance Education, 2021
The purpose of this study was to investigate Japanese secondary physical educators' professional development experiences teaching Japanese traditional dance education at a private secondary school. This study used a descriptive-qualitative research method, using in-depth interviewing within andragogy theory. Four physical education teachers (three…
Descriptors: Physical Education Teachers, Dance Education, Folk Culture, Asian Culture
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Johnson, Tyler G.; Twietmeyer, Gregg – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2018
The term "the practice of physical activity" was recently introduced as one of the four elements of the American Kinesiology Association undergraduate core curriculum. The purpose of this article is to articulate the nature of the term by offering a philosophical justification (other than health) for including physical activity…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Kinetics, Undergraduate Study, Academic Degrees
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Mulvihill, Julie A. – Journal of Dance Education, 2018
Principles of responsible citizenship that can contribute to the development of a pedagogy of collaboration in dance making contexts are examined. Philosophical ideas about relational being and what it means for people to be, think, and act together contribute to a framework for investigating communication and habits among dance makers. Rehearsal…
Descriptors: Dance Education, Citizenship Education, Teaching Methods, Interpersonal Relationship
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Pentz, Julie L.; AlQadfan, Fatmah; Al-Khaldi, Haya; Schroeder, Janice – Childhood Education, 2018
Children's optimal learning is supported by strong family relationships and many innovative programs seek to strengthen those relationships. Tap To Togetherness is doing so through dance, and sharing this dynamic art form with families in the United States and now in Ghana and Kuwait. This is a follow-up to "Tap To Togetherness: An Innovative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dance, Teaching Methods, Family Programs
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Kay, Cheryl – Journal of Dance Education, 2017
This article documents a reflexive personal teacher narrative (Brookfield 1995; Cochran-Smith and Lytle 2009; Humphreys 2005; Hamilton, Smith, and Worthington 2009; Larrivee 2010) about understanding the legacy of the Indian Residential School experience for indigenous people of British Columbia, Canada. In 2015, a new curriculum was introduced. I…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Personal Narratives, Residential Schools, Dance
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