Traditionally, the art of teaching dance has largely been a skill transferred from teacher to
student. This master-apprentice paradigm encourages the passing on of technical and …

Dance is included as one of five subjects within the new Australian National Arts Curriculum.
Learning in the Arts in general is based on collaborative, creative, inquiry-based processes …

This chapter explores pedagogical approaches within two different university dance
educational settings, one situated in Ireland and one in Australia, by charting the author's …

Dance teachers in 21st century classrooms must be able to adapt their pedagogy to respond
to the diverse needs of their students, using reflexive skills often associated with …

This article, through interrogating, exploring, and probing my pedagogical practice, aims to
probe the issues and complexities involved in teaching dance education with university …

This thesis investigates the concerns, dilemmas and opportunities that teachers associated
with teaching culturally diverse dances from contextual perspectives. This topic was …

ABSTRACT A mixed methods approach for gathering data was adopted to report Level 5,
2nd (N= 34; F27, M7) and Level 6, 3rd (N= 29; M5, F24) year University students'(N= 63) …

Dance education is rarely taught in Australian primary schools. A National Arts curriculum
was published online in 2014, and ready for implementation the following year. Therefore …

This reflective essay traces a pathway through dance, beginning with the early influences in
dance training and scholarship, through to building a University dance programme and …

In this action research study, the author examines her teaching a unit of study focusing on
the dance Outside In, choreographed by Victoria Marks in 1994. Aided by an analysis of …