Creative Dance -- Practising and Improving . . . What? A Study in Physical Education Teacher Education
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| Title: | Creative Dance -- Practising and Improving . . . What? A Study in Physical Education Teacher Education |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Håkan Larsson (ORCID |
| Source: | European Physical Education Review. 2025 31(1):163-179. |
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| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
| Page Count: | 17 |
| Publication Date: | 2025 |
| Document Type: | Journal Articles Reports - Research |
| Descriptors: | Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Education, Dance, Creativity, Teaching Methods, Physical Education, Foreign Countries |
| Geographic Terms: | Sweden |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1356336X241254284 |
| ISSN: | 1356-336X 1741-2749 |
| Abstract: | Creative dance, that is to say, movements, with or without music, which allow participants to express ideas, thoughts, and feelings, are sometimes accompanied by a 'there is no right or wrong way to move' rhetoric. This may reinforce the impression among physical education teacher education (PETE) students, who often have limited experience of (creative) dance, that there is nothing to practise in creative dance and that this activity is merely directionless movement. In this paper, however, based on Aggerholm's notion of practising movements, we explore an occasion in a PETE course where a magic moment occurred, indicating that the students had practised and 'figured out' something that made this moment possible. The purpose of the paper is to explore the knowledge in movement that PETE students were practising as they participated in creative dance. The purpose is also to shed light on what pedagogical practice contributed to enabling such practising. Video documentation and short interviews with students in one PETE course and one continuing professional development course for physical education teachers indicate that the magic moment was made possible as the students' practised making sense of moving in non-predetermined -- creative -- ways and appreciating the expressive dimension of movement. Laban's movement analysis framework seemed, along with the teachers' knowledge of movement, to be an important element in the pedagogical practice that made the magic moment possible. |
| Abstractor: | As Provided |
| Entry Date: | 2025 |
| Accession Number: | EJ1458428 |
| Database: | ERIC |
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| Abstract: | Creative dance, that is to say, movements, with or without music, which allow participants to express ideas, thoughts, and feelings, are sometimes accompanied by a 'there is no right or wrong way to move' rhetoric. This may reinforce the impression among physical education teacher education (PETE) students, who often have limited experience of (creative) dance, that there is nothing to practise in creative dance and that this activity is merely directionless movement. In this paper, however, based on Aggerholm's notion of practising movements, we explore an occasion in a PETE course where a magic moment occurred, indicating that the students had practised and 'figured out' something that made this moment possible. The purpose of the paper is to explore the knowledge in movement that PETE students were practising as they participated in creative dance. The purpose is also to shed light on what pedagogical practice contributed to enabling such practising. Video documentation and short interviews with students in one PETE course and one continuing professional development course for physical education teachers indicate that the magic moment was made possible as the students' practised making sense of moving in non-predetermined -- creative -- ways and appreciating the expressive dimension of movement. Laban's movement analysis framework seemed, along with the teachers' knowledge of movement, to be an important element in the pedagogical practice that made the magic moment possible. |
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| ISSN: | 1356-336X 1741-2749 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1356336X241254284 |
