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    CALENDAR DESCRIPTION: "The most striking example of education
    as "the cultivation of modes of expression" is an
    activity that has no counterpart in American schools
    --something the English call "Movement", with a
    capital
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    "M". One of the important aspects of the
    growth of informal education, the Plowden Committee
    writes, "has been the increasing recognition of the
    place of expressive movement in primary education.
    Children have a great capacity to respond to music,
    stoeies, and ideas, and there is a close link through
    movement, whether as dance or drama, with other areas
    of learning and experience with speech, language,
    literature, and art as well as with music".
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    Austrian born Rudolph Laban has an accumulating
    reputation as a major twentieth century thinker and
    innovator in the field of education. His reputation
    rests mainly on his work in education as "the culti-
    vation. of modes of expression". Laban's analysis
    and classification of movement not only formed the
    base for most contemporary dance in Europe and North
    America, but also has enriched the "movement life"
    of children and the "movement literacy" of modern
    society.
    A child learns, through this analysis, to
    understand "how, what and where" his body moves.
    Where this approach is used in a developmental way,
    sensitivity and confidence along with physical skill
    increase enormously. Furthermore, success is not
    limited to the athletic. An important characteristic
    of movement education is that it can provide satis-
    faction for the great majority of children.
    Gymnastics and games have been affected by
    Laban's analysis, and so too has the classroom.
    Music, art, poetry and drama become natural exten-
    sions of the new "dance", acting sometimes together,
    sometimes singly, as both stimuli and accompaniment.
    In turn, art forms develop from a fresh and natural
    perspective.
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    Silberman C. Crisis in the Classroom, Random House N.Y.,
    1970.
    p.
    253.
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    Warrell 6 others May 6th-June 1
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    4th N & W
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    14:30-8:30
    Range of Topics:
    Laban's analysis and classification of movement;
    movement and music; movement and poetry; movement
    and art; movement and drama.
    Recommended Reading:
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    1486 Reserve Book List
    Summer 19714
    Movement Analysis
    GV 1753 L3
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    Laban, R. Modern Educational Dance. London
    and Evans, 1948.
    GV 14143 J625
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    Jordon, D. Childhood and Movement. Oxford:
    Blackwell, 1966
    GV 1783 P7
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    Preston, V. A Handbook for Modern Educational
    Dance. London: MacDonald and Evans, 1963.
    Dance
    GV 1799 B65
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    Boorman, J. Creative Dance in the Primary Grades.
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    Toronto: Longmans, 1969.
    GV 1799 L65
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    Lofthouse, P. Creative Dance for Boys. London:
    MacDonald and Evans, 1969.
    GV 1799 R83
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    Russell, J. Creative Dance in the Secondary
    School. London: MacDonald and Evans, 1969.
    Art
    N365 G7 F5
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    Field, D. Change in Art Education. (Students'
    Library of Education) London: Routledge and
    Kegan Paul, 1970.
    N350 M266
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    Marshall, S. An Experiment in Education Cambridge.
    Cambridge University Press, 1963.
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    Music
    MT 1 R53 Richards, M.H. Language Arts Through Music P.A.
    Trilogy. California: Richards Institute of
    Music Education and Research, 1971.
    ML 3923 T5
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    Thackray, R.M. Music and Physical Education.
    London: G. Bell and Sons, 1965.
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    Drama
    PN3171 G58
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    Goodridge, J. Drama in the Primary School
    London: Heinemann Education Books, 1970.
    Slade, P. Child Drama. London: University of
    London Press, 1954.
    PN3171 W38
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    Way, B. Development Through Drama. London:
    Longmans, 1967.
    PN3171 G7
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    Cheifetz. Theatre in my Head. Littlebrown,
    Boston, 1971.
    Language Arts
    PN6101 B52
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    Baldwin F. and Whitehead, N. (Eds.) That Way
    and This: Poetry for Creative Dance.
    London: Catto and Windus, 1972.
    Langdon, Margaret. Let the Children Write.
    London: Longmans, 1961.
    LB1576 M5
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    Moffett, James. A Student-Centered Language
    Arts Curriculum, Grades K-13: A Handbook
    for Teachers. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
    Requirements:
    (1)
    Attendance, participation and sequences -- 50%
    (2)
    Readings and three papers
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    -- 50%
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