Overview

Dance has the power to change the lives of young people. It is a force in shaping identity, affirming culture and exploring heritage in an increasingly borderless world. Creative and empowering pedagogies are driving curriculum development worldwide where the movement of peoples and cultures generates new challenges and possibilities for dance education in multiple contexts. In Dance Education around the World: Perspectives on Dance, Young People and Change, writers across the globe come together to reflect, comment on and share their expertise and experiences. The settings are drawn from a spectrum of countries with contributions from Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, Asia, the Pacific and Africa giving insights and fresh perspectives into contrasting ideas, philosophies and approaches to dance education from Egypt to Ghana, Brazil to Finland, Jamaica to the Netherlands, the UK, USA, Australia, New Zealand and more. This volume offers chapters and narratives on: Curriculum developments worldwide Empowering communities through dance Embodiment and creativity in dance teaching Exploring and assessing learning in dance as artistic practice Imagined futures for dance education Reflection, evaluation, analysis and documentation are key to the evolving ecology of dance education and research involving individuals, communities and nations. Dance Education around the World: Perspectives on Dance, Young People and Change provides a great resource for dance educators, practitioners and researchers, and pushes for the furtherance of dance education around the world. Charlotte Svendler Nielsen is Assistant professor and head of educational studies at the Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, research group Body, Learning and Identity, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Stephanie Burridge lectures at Lasalle College of the Arts and Singapore Management University, and is the series editor for Routledge Celebrating Dance in Asia and the Pacific.

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Author:   Charlotte Svendler Nielsen (Department of Exercise and Sport Sciences, University of Copenhagen) ,  Stephanie Burridge ,  Sir Ken Robinson
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 17.40cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.172kg
ISBN:  

9780415743631

ISBN 10:   041574363
Pages:   186
Publication Date:   13 April 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Foreword Sir Ken Robinson Part 1: Curriculum Development Worldwide 1.1 Applied Dance Curriculum: A global perspective Susan Koff 1.2 An Australian Dance Curriculum for Social Justice: Potentials and possibilities Jeff Meiners and Robyne Garrett 1.3 Reciprocal Engagement in Dance: Empowering encounters in New Zealand early childhood settings Adrienne Sansom 1.4 From Concept to Classroom: Challenges facing the implementation of the dance curriculum in the Western Cape of South Africa Sharon Friedman 1.5 Dance in the New Zealand Classroom: Making connections Liz Melchior 1.6 Creative Dance Education in a Singapore Primary School Lim Mei Chian Part 2: Empowering Communities through Dance 2.1 Exploring the rights of the First Nations child through the arts: Our dreams matter too Mary-Elizabeth Manley 2.2 Dancing Beyond the Post-Trauma Paradigm: Community projects in the Occupied Palestinian Territories Nicholas Rowe 2.3 The Politics of Dance Education in Post-Revolutionary Cairo Rosemary Martin 2.4 Traditional Dance in Ghanaian Schools: Maintaining national identity through the involvement of youth and children Beatrice Ayi 2.5 Negotiating Multiple Spheres of Identity: A Filipino community in Toronto, Canada Catherine Limbertie Part 3: Embodiment and Creativity in Dance Teaching 3.1 Dance as Embodied Dialogue: Insights from a school project in Finland Eeva Anttila 3.2 Transformative Impact of Dance Experiences in Brazil Alba Vieira 3.3 Dialogue and ‘Pedagogical Love’: Atmosphere and reflexivity in dance Isto Turpeinen 3.4 Teaching for Better Lives: The philosophy of a Jamaican dance teacher Carolyn Russell-Smith 3.5 ""The Summer Workshop of Dance Education for Children"" at Tainan University of Technology, Taiwan JuanAnn Tai Part 4: Exploring and Assessment in Dance Education 4.1 Rethinking Standards and Assessment in Dance Education Susan W. Stinson 4.2 Exploring Learning in Dance as Artistic-Educational Practice Charlotte Svendler Nielsen 4.3 Stepping into Skin: Expanding empathy through dance Kristen Jeppsen Groves and Marin Leggat Roper 4.4 Making the Learning Visible in Creative Dance Education Marc Richard 4.5 Watching Dance in Order to Discover ‘New Worlds’ Liesbeth Wildschut Part 5: Imagined Futures for Dance Education 5.1 Dance Education: Embodied knowing in the digitalized world Ann Kipling-Brown 5.2 Partnerships for Creativity: Expanding teaching possibilities Kerry Chappell and Veronica Jobbins 5.3 Stepping Back to Step Forward: Reflections on future directions for dance education Ralph Buck 5.4 Twinning: An intercultural approach in dance education Maria Speth 5.5 The Post Natyam Collective: Building grassroots artistic community online Cynthia Ling Lee"

Reviews

...this book is more than a catalogue of examples. It is a book of analysis and reflection. Its intention is not simply to declare the power of dance but to fathom it. It is designed to deepen understanding of the many roles of dance in human life: in shaping cultural identity, in expressing our deepest feelings, in embodying relationships and in giving form to ideas than cannot be rendered so aptly in any other way. More than this, it interrogates the conditions that are needed, in education especially, for dance to fulfill these roles. - Sir Ken Robinson, Foreword The contents of the various anthology contributions vary, but they show together on the importance of sharing experiences and ideas between researchers dance, dance teachers and dance practitioners around the world. This anthology is a step in the right direction and the process to reflect, evaluate, analyze and document dance education must continue. - Torun Mattsson, idrottsforum.org

...this book is more than a catalogue of examples. It is a book of analysis and reflection. Its intention is not simply to declare the power of dance but to fathom it. It is designed to deepen understanding of the many roles of dance in human life: in shaping cultural identity, in expressing our deepest feelings, in embodying relationships and in giving form to ideas than cannot be rendered so aptly in any other way. More than this, it interrogates the conditions that are needed, in education especially, for dance to fulfill these roles. - Sir Ken Robinson, Foreword

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Charlotte Svendler Nielsen is Assistant Professor and Head of educational studies at the Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, research group Body, Learning and Identity, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Stephanie Burridge lectures at Lasalle College of the Arts and Singapore Management University, and is the series editor for Routledge Celebrating Dance in Asia and the Pacific.

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