01MON FRASER UNIVERSITY

Summer Session 2000 ?

EDUC 430 - 4 ?

Dr. Celeste Snowber

Designs for Learning: Dance

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Office: MPX 8674

Phone: 291-4453

E-mail: celeste@sfu.ca

D01.00

Mon, Wed, & Fri 13:00-16:50

PREREQUISITE

Educ 330 & Educ 401/402 or permission of instructor

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course is for students and teachers with some movement/dance experience who are planning

to teach dance in school or cultural settings, or integrate movement education in the wider

curriculum. Students will continue experiential and theoretical explorations of movement

language with increasing emphasis on expressive, formal and critical aspects of dance education.

Emphasis will be placed on making, critiquing, and performing dance within a collaborative and

supportive space for creating art. Central to this course is the importance of improvisation as a tool

for artistic development and parallels between making dance and the pedagogical relationship will

continue to be forged. Dance education will be connected to the work of practicing artists and ideas

will be developed for integration of fine arts areas as well as various subject areas. Opportunity will

be given to develop teaching skills in dance education, group and solo performative work

developing curriculum, and enhancing the writing process.

TOPICS

Dance education (current issues) ?

Embodied writing

Body pedagogy ?

Children's literature and dance

Improvisation and teaching

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Dance and culture

Integrating movement within the wider curriculum Interacting with performance

COURSE REQUIREMENTS

1.

Mini-teaching session - 30%

2.

Writings from dance journal (incl. journal) - 30%

3.

Performance piece or Curriculum unit - 40%

REQUIRED TEXTS

Zakkai, J. (1997). Dance as a way of knowing. L.A., CA: The Galef Institute.

Nachmanoavitch, S. (1990). Free play: The power of improvisation in life and the arts.

NY: Tarcher/Pedigree Books.

Shapiro, S., (Ed.) (1999). Dance, power and difference: Critical feminist perspectives on dance

education. Champaign, Illinois: Human Kinetics International.