Publication details
Tělo pedagoga v kontextu tanečního vzdělání/The Teacher´s Body in the Context of Dance Education
| Title in English | The Teacher´s Body in the Context of Dance Education |
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| Year of publication | 2022 |
| Type | Article in Periodical (without peer review) |
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| Description | Dance teachers at conservatories, primary and secondary arts schools, and private dance studios form a specific group of professionals focusing on a marginal domain of our society – dance – on both amateur and professional levels. This community, though, is still rather heterogenous, and it is possible to say that each teacher holds a different set of approaches, communication strategies, and motivation tools, and that there is a variety of individual professional and personal histories, dance techniques, and targeted age groups. However, all dance teachers have some things in common: firstly, it is their body, moulded by years of dance training, and possessing a specific kind of movement memory. Secondly, the (un)deliberate choice of pedagogical approach, a sort of teaching mix that changes in time, and that depends on various conditions (e.g. whether a teacher has completed their dance training, or has their own children). This paper aims to open up topics that have not been properly discussed in the Czech milieu yet, and that are currently emerging in the domain of dance pedagogy, aesthetic education, and other related disciplines, and present dance as a universal pedagogical tool. The paper will outline its potential through a body typology, which tries to map out the relationship between a dance teacher and dance pedagogy curriculum through the medium of the body. |
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