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Zakkai, Jennifer Donohue – 1997
This book illustrates why and how movements and dance are powerful tools for learning and creativity in K-6 classrooms. Designed to be a workshop on paper, the book helps teachers build on what they already know about movement and implement techniques that tap into children's natural interest in moving. Chapter 1,"Moving To Learn," explains the…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Creative Expression, Creativity, Dance Education
Arkansas State Dept. of Education, Little Rock. – 1995
This framework for dance contains three instructional strands. Each strand has content standards and cumulative student learning expectations for grades K-4, grades 5-8, and grades 9-12. The three strands are: (1) "Basic Elements of Movement;" (2) "Arts in Civilization;" and (3) "Artistic Communication." The content…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Dance, Dance Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Green, Jill – 1998
This paper examines specific pedagogical themes, findings, and implications for dance education. The focus is on the topic of educating the student body in dance. The paper draws on a preliminary introduction and analysis from a previous study and accompanying course which pointed out a common dominant focus in dance education (an externalized…
Descriptors: Body Image, Dance Education, Educational Research, Ethnography
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Art Education, 1983
The focus of this special issue is how art facilitates the cognitive maturation of the child. In the last 20 years, the copious research conducted in the field of children's art and artistic development underscores that children's intellectual, as well as emotional development, is of long-standing and continuing interest. (RM)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Art Education, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development
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Chen, Weiyun; Cone, Theresa – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2003
Examined how elementary students' use of critical thinking in their movement actions was inspired by an "expert" teacher's task design, task presentation, and instructional strategies during creative dance lessons. Data from videotaped lessons and written anecdotes indicated that by presenting sequential, open- ended tasks and learning…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Dance Education, Elementary Education, Movement Education
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Daniel, Rod – Arts Education Policy Review, 2000
Discusses the success of arts-focused schools in performing and visual arts. Offers examples of outstanding schools. Focuses on the importance of having the best administration, the administrative considerations involved in establishing a successful arts-infused school, and finding the best faculty with a diverse focus. (CMK)
Descriptors: Administration, Art Education, Dance Education, Diversity (Faculty)
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Franke, Johannah S. – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1989
Describes how two proficient teachers of physical education retrained to become proficient teachers of writing. Discusses the plan for retraining teachers; the connections between writing, tennis, and dance; revision; evaluation; and outcomes. (SR)
Descriptors: College English, Dance Education, Faculty Development, Physical Education
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Willis, Cheryl M. – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, 1995
This paper addresses factors to consider in establishing a healthy learning environment and a satisfying first-year experience for dance educators. Factors include establishing a positive working relationship with principals and teachers, considering students' physical and emotional development, using discipline, fostering self-management skills,…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Child Development, Classroom Techniques, Creative Teaching
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Ross, Janice – Liberal Education, 1994
Despite its relatively recent introduction as part of a liberal arts curriculum, dance education is beginning to be recognized as a serious discipline that fosters a more diversely developed mind and the ability to look critically at cultural symbols. (MSE)
Descriptors: Creativity, Critical Thinking, Cultural Awareness, Dance Education
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Kerr-Berry, Julie A.; And Others – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, 1994
Six articles in this feature section emphasize the value of African dance in all levels of education. The articles address aspects of African dance ranging from its historical and philosophical underpinnings to applications from the elementary to the college level. (SM)
Descriptors: African Culture, African Studies, Afrocentrism, Consciousness Raising
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Koff, Susan R. – Childhood Education, 2000
Defines dance education, noting that it enables all children to be expressive nonverbally and to incorporate the physical self as a functioning part of the whole social being. Differentiates dance training and education. Discusses the importance of learning through movement and curricular integration through dance, asserting that dance education…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Childhood Needs, Dance, Dance Education
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Mackinlay, Elizabeth – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2005
In this paper I explore the special type of thinking, moving and dancing place which is opened up for decolonisaton when students engage in an embodied pedagogical practice in Indigenous education. I examine what decolonisation means in this context by describing the ways in which the curriculum, the students and me, and more generally the…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Dance, Music, Dance Education
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Nilges, Lynda M. – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2004
The movement meanings of students (n=19) in one fifth-grade class during a creative dance unit focusing on effort (force, time, space, flow) are investigated using a perspective grounded in transcendental phenomenology (Husserl, 1931). Data were collected via videotape, journal, and homework documents and semistructured interviews. Analytical…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Dance, Dance Education, Physical Education
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Risner, Doug; Godfrey, Heidi; Simmons, Linda C. – Journal of Dance Education, 2004
The ways in which seven private sector dance professionals in the United States perceive the impact of sexuality in contemporary culture and the choices that they make for their own schools of dance because of these perceptions are explored. This study was conducted through in-depth interviews and a survey instrument. The participants' narratives…
Descriptors: Private Sector, Dance Education, Sexuality, Parent Attitudes
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Warburton, Edward C. – Research in Dance Education, 2002
This paper describes new approaches to assessment in dance and dance education. The first part examines assumptions behind traditional models of evaluation in academic and performing arts contexts. I consider whether it is useful to understand human ability as unitary or if it is meaningful to evaluate people according to a single dimension of…
Descriptors: Dance Education, Evaluation, Talent Identification, Intelligence
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