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ERIC Number: EJ997215
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012
Pages: 8
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1529-0824
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Tracing Lines of Meaning: A Course Redesign for Dance Pedagogy
Enghauser, Rebecca Gose
Journal of Dance Education, v12 n2 p54-61 2012
The 21st-century dance milieu demands that a dancer possess a highly diverse skill set, including effective teaching skills and a broader appreciation of a pedagogical orientation. It is vital that in preparing dance educators, we create opportunities for students to reflect on their dance learning histories and consequential beliefs about teaching, and that we use this and other strategies to open meaningful windows into self, others, and the course content. Focusing on practice, this article documents my efforts to redesign a more potent dance pedagogy course from a topic-centered design to one that is centered on meaningful experiences. In this explication, I outline Fink's Taxonomy of Significant Learning, an effective guide in this redesign process. Finally, I detail a sample assignment from this new course, a digital story project, which calls on prior beliefs about teaching and also evidences technology's potential role in facilitating meaningful learning. (Contains 1 figure.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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