Dance Education around the World

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Dance has the power to change the lives of young people. This is a force in shaping identity, affirming culture and exploring heritage in an an increasing number of without boundary lines world. Creative and empowering pedagogies are driving curriculum development world wide where the movement of peoples and cultures generates new challenges and possibilities for dance education in a couple of contexts. In Dance Education across 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 United Kingdom, USA, Australia, New Zealand and more.

This volume offers chapters and narratives on:

  • Curriculum developments world wide
  • 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 across the World: Perspectives on Dance, Young People and Change provides an excellent resource for dance educators, practitioners and researchers, and pushes for the furtherance of dance education all over the world.

Charlotte Svendler Nielsen is Assistant professor and head of educational studies on 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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