Author: Little, Araminta

Publication Year: 1978

Media Type: Report

Summary:

The Dance as Learning Conference achieved in a stimulating and provocative manner its purpose of examining the relationships of dance to education and human development. More than 100 dance educators, teachers and students participated. Eight leaders in the field were speakers. Presentations were made by four organizations. Six papers were presented. A Resource Center made available books, records, equipment and films. The conferees were divided into study groups for working sessions where problems and ideas related to dance as learning were discussed. Each study group made a final report to the entire Conference.

Abstract:

The Dance as Learning Conference achieved in a stimulating and provocative manner its purpose of examining the relationships of dance to education and human development. More than 100 dance educators, teachers and students participated. Eight leaders in the field were speakers. Presentations were made by four organizations. Six papers were presented. A Resource Center made available books, records, equipment and films. The conferees were divided into study groups for working sessions where problems and ideas related to dance as learning were discussed. Each study group made a final report to the entire Conference. (p. v)

CONTENTS
Table of contents.
Foreword.
Notes from the editor.
Cooperating agencies and organizations.
Conference program organization.
Greetings to conferees, by David Rockefeller, Jr.

Section 1. Keynote presentations.

About the speakers...
Papers.
Learning theory and dance by Robert S. Fleming.
Summary of work with children by Gladys Andrews Fleming and Robert S. Fleming.
Socio-cultural aspects of dance as learning by Lynne Emery.
Reactions by Connie Jo M. Hepworth and Margaret Hodder.
The unique contribution of dance by Lois E. Ellfeldt.
Reactions by Ann Zirulnik, Margaret Toohey, and Marjorie Wyatt.
Implications of the new educational conservatism for the future of the arts in education by Elliot W. Eisner.
Summary of other presentations.
Dance as a fundamental aspect of education by Nik Krevitsky.
Changing one's state of being through movement by Kay Ortmans.
Review of Bio-physical and motor learning research by Marguerite Clifton.

Section 2. Conference papers and briefs.

Summary of the section papers.
Movement in education: Back to basics by Carolyn Dorfman.
Learning to dance and learning through dance by Gertrude Blanchard.
An intensive model: Creative Dance in elementary education by Conni Adams Blackwell.
Learning language arts through movement by Anne Green Gilbert.
Effort qualities and the development of psycho-sexual identify in early adolescents by Susan Warshaw Stinson.
Folk dance: a window on the world of learning by Richard Duree.
Briefs.
Alliance for Arts Education.
National Endowment for the Arts.
McDonald's, Incorporated.
Southwest Regional Laboratory.
National Dance Association.

Section 3. Study Group reports.

Introduction.
Group I: Elementary school level.
Group II: Elementary school level.
Group III: Intermediate school level.
Group IV: Secondary school level.
Group V: College and university level.
Group VI. Dance in the community.
Untitled poem by Betty Rose Griffith.

Arts & Intersections:

Categories: Arts Education