MON FRASER UNIVERSITY
Summer Session 2001
EDUC 430 - 4
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Cornelius Fischer-Credo
Designs for Learning: Dance
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Office: TBA
Phone:
291-3395 / 873-9254
D01.00
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Email: cornelius@vkool.com
Tuesday & Thursday
13:00-17:50 in EDB 7540
PREREQUISITES
Educ 330 & Educ 401/2 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,community as well as cultural settings, or integrate movement education in the wider
curriculum. Students will continue technical, experimental and theoretical explorations of movement language
with increasing emphasis on expressive, formal and critical aspects of dance education. Focus will be given to a
unique training approach that is anatomically logical and strengthening while also being choreographically
challenging. This course seeks to inspire the student to embrace the belief that everyone can and should dance,
being the natural and inherent art form of all humanity.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
The course is intended to give focus on strategies for lesson plans that will aid in the teaching of dance within
the British Columbia public school system, as well as other environments. Students will develop physical skills
based on a modern dance vocabulary that will enhance co-ordination, confidence and performance. Emphasis
will be given to the students' creative processes with respect to structure, content and diversity. Opportunity
will be given to enhance teaching skills in dance education, developing curriculum, group and solo performance
studies, video analysis, as well as critical writing on dance as an art form.
COURSE CONTENT
The main thrust of this course will be practically based. Within each class a minimum of three hours will be
dedicated to physical activities that will include technical drills, composition assignments, and video projects.
Lectures will centre around an in depth survey of the B.C. Ministry of Education's curriculum for dance as well
as analysis of dance videos, discussions on dance and its importance in education. There will be guest dance
artists and educators during the course of the five week period.
Practical based activities will also include:
Workshops on dance curriculum related topics based on the work of Patricia Parker, an educator who has
taught dance for twenty years within theVancouver school system.
• The creation of a piece of choreography that will be performed at theend of the course. The choreography
can be a collaboration between the whole class or separate works by smaller groups. Elements of the
choreographed material will be sourced for teaching units that will be team taught.
• The compiling of a resource video using class material generated throughout the course, guest
lectures/ teaching demonstrations.
EVALUATION
Theoretical marks
are based on:
Term paper ?
20 Marks
Live performance critique
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10 Marks
Final project lesson plans
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10 Marks
Practical marks
are based on:
Class participation ?
25 Marks
(Participation marks are based on attendance, involvement and integration of learned material)
Final project
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35 Marks
To t
al 100 Marks
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REFERENCE TEXTS
British Columbia Curriculum for Schools Manual, 1997
Janelle Lust, Creative Dance, As an Integrated Subject in the Primary School Curriculum, Physical Education
Publication Co-operative Ltd., 1974
Joan F. Hays, Modern Dance, A Biomechanical Approach to Teaching, C.V Mesby Company, London, 1991
Judith Lynn Hanna, Dance and Stress, Resistance, Reduction and Euphoria, AMS Press Inc., New York, 1988
Valerie Preston, A Handbook for Modern Educational Dance, MacDonald and Evans Ltd., 1975
Erica and Hugo Dobler, Kleine Spiele(Little Games). Volkseinger Verlag, Berlin, 1985
