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This book brings together a collection of writers from across the globe to reflect, comment on and share their expertise and experiences in dance education, exploring issues and best practices for teaching and learning.
List 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
About the author
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.
Summary
This book brings together a collection of writers from across the globe to reflect, comment on and share their expertise and experiences in dance education, exploring issues and best practices for teaching and learning.
