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Risner, Doug – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2014
General education programs, in postsecondary institutions, provide a broad base of learning in the liberal arts and sciences with common goals that prepare undergraduate students for living informed and satisfying lives. In the United States, dance units in public institutions, offering general education coursework for non-majors (dance…
Descriptors: Dance Education, Postsecondary Education, Gender Issues, Gender Differences
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Anderson, Mary Elizabeth; Risner, Doug; Butterworth, Michael – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2013
This international study investigated the experiences and attitudes of teaching artists whose work is rooted in theatre, dance, and closely-related disciplines. Based on survey data from teaching artists working in Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia, United Kingdom, and the United States (n = 172), the paper illuminates participants'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Art Teachers, Artists, Theater Arts
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Risner, Doug; Stinson, Susan W. – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2010
This essay explores social justice commitments in dance pedagogy and dance education teacher preparation in the USA as developed through a series of conversations between two dance educators and former administrators in higher education. The authors examine the history of multiculturalism, multicultural practices in postsecondary dance, their…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Dance Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Higher Education