Dance, power, and difference : critical and feminist perspectives on dance education / Sherry B. Shapiro, editor

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Champaign, IL : Human Kinetics, ©1998.Description: vi, 194 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0880117478 (paperback)
  • 9780880117470 (paperback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 21 792.8071 SHA
LOC classification:
  • GV1589 .D387 1998
Contents:
PART I: FOUNDATIONS / Ch. 1 Toward transformative teachers: critical and feminist perspectives in dance education / Sherry B. Shapiro ; Ch 2. Seeking a feminist pedagogy for children's dance / Susan W. Stinson ; Ch. 3 Somatics: a tool for empowering modern dance teachers / Sylvie Fortin -- PART II: TELLING STORIES / Ch. 4 Into the light: an expanding vision of dance education / Jan Bolwell ; Ch. 5 Her story / Sondra Stamey Sluder ; Ch. 6 On authoritarianism in the dance classroom / Clyde Smith -- PART III: WRITING NEW STORIES / Ch. 7 Art and the community: breaking the aesthetic of disempowerment / Christine M. Lomas Ch. 8 Dance education in/and the Postmodern / Isabel A. Marques.
Summary: "Using a variety of approaches - including general critique, case studies, and personal histories - the contributors provide a foundation for reconstructing dance education in light of critical, social, and cultural concerns. Part I introduces you to foundational questions concerning curriculum, pedagogy, and research. Part II presents personal stories that place these questions in the context of specific situations. Part III discusses the role of dance within the broader political and social arena. Each chapter includes an abstract, critical reflections, questions to spur discussion and individual thought, and references." -- Book cover
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

PART I: FOUNDATIONS / Ch. 1 Toward transformative teachers: critical and feminist perspectives in dance education / Sherry B. Shapiro ; Ch 2. Seeking a feminist pedagogy for children's dance / Susan W. Stinson ; Ch. 3 Somatics: a tool for empowering modern dance teachers / Sylvie Fortin -- PART II: TELLING STORIES / Ch. 4 Into the light: an expanding vision of dance education / Jan Bolwell ; Ch. 5 Her story / Sondra Stamey Sluder ; Ch. 6 On authoritarianism in the dance classroom / Clyde Smith -- PART III: WRITING NEW STORIES / Ch. 7 Art and the community: breaking the aesthetic of disempowerment / Christine M. Lomas Ch. 8 Dance education in/and the Postmodern / Isabel A. Marques.

"Using a variety of approaches - including general critique, case studies, and personal histories - the contributors provide a foundation for reconstructing dance education in light of critical, social, and cultural concerns. Part I introduces you to foundational questions concerning curriculum, pedagogy, and research. Part II presents personal stories that place these questions in the context of specific situations. Part III discusses the role of dance within the broader political and social arena. Each chapter includes an abstract, critical reflections, questions to spur discussion and individual thought, and references." -- Book cover

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