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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Searching for Evidence: Continuing Issues in Dance Education Research
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Stinson, Susan – Research in Dance Education, 2015
This paper reviews, analyzes, and reflects upon two important reports released in 2013, both discussing research evidence for the value of dance education or arts education more generally, among school-aged students. One report was created by a large dance education advocacy and support group in the USA, the National Dance Education Organization;…
Descriptors: Evidence, Dance Education, Educational Research, Art Education
Embodied Writing: Choreographic Composition as Methodology
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Ulmer, Jasmine B. – Research in Dance Education, 2015
This paper seeks to examine how embodied methodological approaches might inform dance education practice and research. Through a series of examples, this paper explores how choreographic writing might function as an embodied writing methodology. Here, choreographic writing is envisioned as a form of visual word choreography in which words move,…
Descriptors: Dance Education, Educational Practices, Educational Research, Writing Strategies
Dance Education Action Research: A Twin Study
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Giguere, Miriam – Research in Dance Education, 2015
In this article, the author compares the practices, philosophy, and history of action research, also known as participatory action research, to the purposes and practices of dance education. The comparison yields connections in four categories, enhancing self-reflective teaching and curriculum design, taking responsibility for teaching outcomes,…
Descriptors: Dance Education, Action Research, Participatory Research, Educational Practices
"My Name Is a Blackbird": Release, Transparency, and Agency
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Shanahan, Molly – Research in Dance Education, 2015
This essay traces the author's embodied practices toward the creation of an evening-length, spontaneously composed solo. Specifically, the author focuses on her work to release superficial and deep abdominal musculature to discover a new movement vocabulary, and greater access to the mobility of the pelvis/belly, ribs, and spine. The author…
Descriptors: Dance, Human Body, Physical Mobility, Creative Activities
Collaborative Practices in Dance Research: Unpacking the Process
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Barr, Sherrie – Research in Dance Education, 2015
This essay explores the numerous and diverse ways collaborative practices in dance research can unfold. Strengths and challenges within the collaborative process are discussed as emphasis is given to the multiple perspectives and types of relationships that evolve from and within the process. These core elements offer scholars a rich array of…
Descriptors: Dance, Dance Education, Educational Research, Educational Practices
Somatic Sensitivity and Reflexivity as Validity Tools in Qualitative Research
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Green, Jill – Research in Dance Education, 2015
Validity is a key concept in qualitative educational research. Yet, it is often not addressed in methodological writing about dance. This essay explores validity in a postmodern world of diverse approaches to scholarship, by looking at the changing face of validity in educational qualitative research and at how new understandings of the concept…
Descriptors: Validity, Qualitative Research, Educational Research, Dance Education