IntroductionThe Origin of the SectionTHE ARTICLE IN THIS SPECIAL SECTION are based on a symposium... more IntroductionThe Origin of the SectionTHE ARTICLE IN THIS SPECIAL SECTION are based on a symposium held at the Bergamo 2014 Conference. The origin of that symposium began at AERA 2014. Donald Blumenfeld-Jones (Donald) was telling Jim Henderson (Jim) of his experience working with a colleague over how to schedule a course. (I will proceed in a more informal, first person pronoun narrative. If what follows does not appear even-handed, it is not meant to be even-handed. This voice to which I refer has long been suppressed. Freud's father taught Sigmund to be evenhanded and quiet. I, while not Sigmund Freud, as with him, refuse to be silent any longer.)I intended to offer a professional development course in the teacher prep program I had created. I had already worked out with the school administrator the schedule for this course, a schedule which did not match the university's scheduling. I approached an administrator for help: schedule the course as if it fits the university bu...
This dissertation is a philosophical analysis of the language of dance education. In particular t... more This dissertation is a philosophical analysis of the language of dance education. In particular the writer analyses the relation between language and body understanding. The Introduction presents an initial metaphor of consciousness as "world". The dance classroom is characterized as a space for the negotiation of the worlds of the students and teachers. The negotiation is political with unequal distribution of influence over the formation of the classroom world, such negotiation ordinarily favoring the teacher's world. Berger and Luckmann and Rorty are major sources for the analysis. Chapter One relates language to the formation of consciousness. Language functions to prevent us from knowing the world and enables us to come to know the world. Language is characterized as metaphorical, as a set of conflicting languages vying for social ascension and as incorporating a set of dialectical relationships. The individual consciousness is understood to be, at base, socially ...
... A number of studies focused on psychological issues, both attitude and self-esteem. Leigh McS... more ... A number of studies focused on psychological issues, both attitude and self-esteem. Leigh McSwain (1994) used a survey instrument to investigate attitudes toward dance among Sydney high school students. ... 107118). Sydney: Macquarie University. Funk, WW (1995). ...
Dance as a viable representation mode for research is discussed in the light of Clifford Geertz&#... more Dance as a viable representation mode for research is discussed in the light of Clifford Geertz's assertion that ideas can be reflectively addressed through the arts. Dance is described as an autonomous field of aesthetic perception with its own meaning working through the categories of motion, time, space, and shape. Western culture is described as logo centric and nondance, fixed on the myth of words as transparent conveyors of thought. Adopting a hermeneutical stance, the transparency of words is critiqued and, ironically, dance is analogized to text, although not words. How dance can be treated as text is elaborated by using the Ricoeurean idea of action as meaningful text.
IntroductionThe Origin of the SectionTHE ARTICLE IN THIS SPECIAL SECTION are based on a symposium... more IntroductionThe Origin of the SectionTHE ARTICLE IN THIS SPECIAL SECTION are based on a symposium held at the Bergamo 2014 Conference. The origin of that symposium began at AERA 2014. Donald Blumenfeld-Jones (Donald) was telling Jim Henderson (Jim) of his experience working with a colleague over how to schedule a course. (I will proceed in a more informal, first person pronoun narrative. If what follows does not appear even-handed, it is not meant to be even-handed. This voice to which I refer has long been suppressed. Freud's father taught Sigmund to be evenhanded and quiet. I, while not Sigmund Freud, as with him, refuse to be silent any longer.)I intended to offer a professional development course in the teacher prep program I had created. I had already worked out with the school administrator the schedule for this course, a schedule which did not match the university's scheduling. I approached an administrator for help: schedule the course as if it fits the university bu...
This dissertation is a philosophical analysis of the language of dance education. In particular t... more This dissertation is a philosophical analysis of the language of dance education. In particular the writer analyses the relation between language and body understanding. The Introduction presents an initial metaphor of consciousness as "world". The dance classroom is characterized as a space for the negotiation of the worlds of the students and teachers. The negotiation is political with unequal distribution of influence over the formation of the classroom world, such negotiation ordinarily favoring the teacher's world. Berger and Luckmann and Rorty are major sources for the analysis. Chapter One relates language to the formation of consciousness. Language functions to prevent us from knowing the world and enables us to come to know the world. Language is characterized as metaphorical, as a set of conflicting languages vying for social ascension and as incorporating a set of dialectical relationships. The individual consciousness is understood to be, at base, socially ...
... A number of studies focused on psychological issues, both attitude and self-esteem. Leigh McS... more ... A number of studies focused on psychological issues, both attitude and self-esteem. Leigh McSwain (1994) used a survey instrument to investigate attitudes toward dance among Sydney high school students. ... 107118). Sydney: Macquarie University. Funk, WW (1995). ...
Dance as a viable representation mode for research is discussed in the light of Clifford Geertz&#... more Dance as a viable representation mode for research is discussed in the light of Clifford Geertz's assertion that ideas can be reflectively addressed through the arts. Dance is described as an autonomous field of aesthetic perception with its own meaning working through the categories of motion, time, space, and shape. Western culture is described as logo centric and nondance, fixed on the myth of words as transparent conveyors of thought. Adopting a hermeneutical stance, the transparency of words is critiqued and, ironically, dance is analogized to text, although not words. How dance can be treated as text is elaborated by using the Ricoeurean idea of action as meaningful text.
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