K-12 Dance Method to Teach Creative Dance, English, Math and Science
Letting Dance Teach

By (author) Paul Moerman

ISBN13: 9783031931550

Imprint: Springer International Publishing AG

Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG

Format: Hardback

Published: 29/08/2025

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Description
This book provides a hands-on dance teaching method for teachers in pre-school and elementary school, inclusive education and after-school extra curriculum activity, with or without earlier experience of teaching dance, who want to imply dance in their everyday pedagogical work. Numerous exercises and lesson outlines are described to [omit: explore and] teach creative dance, and dance integrated in the teaching of English, mathematics and natural sciences. The carefully designed dance method applied is firmly anchored in contemporary educational theory and dance educational practice, as described in the book’s initial chapter, underscoring why working in an art mode like dance highly matters to education. The theoretical framework is informed by educational theorist Gert Biesta's ideas on letting art teach, subject-ness and democracy, progressive educationalist John Dewey's thinking on art as experience, democracy and education, and dance educator and scholar Susan Stinson’s stances on kinesthetic experience and dancing as becoming. With its abundance of examples and its overall celebration of dance and the work of the senses, this work constitutes both a powerful argument and a rich tool to create space in young people’s education for dance and (kin)esthetics as specific and indispensable sources of expertise and [replace:] modes of dialogue with the social and natural world. Dancing and discovering the magical world of movement, children and students open their senses to a world of insight, meaning and knowledge – letting dance teach.
Part I Teaching Dance: A Theory.- Ontology and Epistemology.- Part II Teaching Dance : A Method.- The nature and elements of dance.- Dancing with each other.- Part III Letting Dance Teach Language, Mathematics and Natural sciences.- Dancing Through the Alphabet.- Dancing Through the Alphabet.- Dancing Natural Sciences.- Summary Letting dance teach : a plea for aesthetic teaching.
  • The arts
  • Teaching of a specific subject
  • Educational: Physical education (including dance)
  • Professional & Vocational
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