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Title
The accidental curricularist: the building of a dance curriculum through artistic and improvisational practice
Description
ABSTRACT This narrative study traces the development of a dance curriculum as it unfolded in an inner city public school. It examines the curriculum emergence through intersecting worlds of artistic practice, improvisation, lived experience and context. These worlds were organized and explored through themes of gender, emotion, longing and intersections and examined through lenses of critical theory, aesthetics and currere. It examines the interior dialogue within one individual educator who is both a dance artist and a teacher and reflects the differing and at times conflicting perspectives within those two positions. The curriculum acquired the name "curriculum by accident" because several highly unexpected events contributed to its development. The students were initially suspicious and hostile and presented significant resistance to classical dance as an artistic form. This resistance was circumvented through creative process and improvisation. The act of improvisation became both a way to approach teaching and curriculum development and as an artistic process. Improvisation courts chance, the unplanned and the accidental through a structure in which the unknown is as valued as the known. The school setting is one full of known subjects; curriculum, settings, procedures, people and expectations. Curriculum by accident was a circumstance in which a known (school) and an unknown (the evolving curriculum) melded. The development of curriculum by accident was a response to an array of intuitive and serendipitous cues. The curriculum seeped through the cracks of school experience and transmuted into a curriculum that was very successful.
Date Created
2010
Contributors
- Bendix, Susan W. (Author)
- Blumenfeld-Jones, Donald (Thesis advisor)
- Barone, Thomas (Committee member)
- Jackson, Naomi (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
Topical Subject
- curriculum development
- Dance
- Performing Arts education
- Choreography
- Creativity
- Curriculum
- Improvisation
- pedagogy
- Synchronicity
- Dance--Study and teaching--Arizona--Phoenix--Case studies.
- Dance
- Dance--Curricula--Arizona--Phoenix--Case studies.
- Dance
- Public schools--Curricula--Arizona--Phoenix--Case studies.
- Public Schools
Resource Type
Extent
v, 297 p
Language
Copyright Statement
In Copyright
Primary Member of
Peer-reviewed
No
Open Access
No
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.8612
Statement of Responsibility
by Susan Bendix
Description Source
Viewed on Feb. 21, 2012
Level of coding
full
Note
Partial requirement for: Ph. D., Arizona State University, 2010
Note type
thesis
Includes bibliographical references (p. 272-276)
Note type
bibliography
Field of study: Curriculum and instruction (Curriculum studies)
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- 2011-08-12 12:59:53
System Modified
- 2021-08-30 01:57:21
- 2 years 7 months ago
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