Embodied Curriculum Theory and Research in Arts Education: A Dance Scholar's Search for Meaning [Paperback]

This collection of articles by Susan W. Stinson, organized thematically and chronologically by the author, reveals the evolution of the field of arts education in general and dance education in particular, through narrative and critical reflections by this unique scholar and a few co-authors. It also includes contextual insights not available elsewhere. The author's pioneering embodied research work in arts and dance education continues to be relevant to researchers today. The selected chapters and articles were predominantly previously published in a variety of journals, conference proceedings and books between 1985 and the present. Each section is preceded by an introduction and the author has written a post scriptum for each article to offer a commentary or response to the article from the current perspective.Acknowledgements and Biographies.- Introduction.- Section I: Essays on Curriculum, Pedagogy and Practice.- Prelude I Chapter 1:  Curriculum and the Morality of Aesthetics (1985).- Chapter 2:  Reflections on Teacher Education in Dance (1991).- Chapter 3: Seeking a Feminist Pedagogy for Children s Dance (1998).- Chapter 4: Choreographing a Life: Reflections on Curriculum Design, Consciousness and Possibility (2001).- Chapter 5: What We Teach Is Who We Are: The Stories of Our Lives (2002).- Chapter 6: My Body/Myself: Lessons from Dance Education (2004).- Chapter 7: The Hidden Curriculum of Gender in Dance Education (2005).- Chapter 8: Dance in Schools: Valuing the Questions (2006).- Chapter 9: Questioning Our Past and Building a Future: Teacher Education in Dance for the 21^st Century (2010).- Chapter 10: Rethinking Standards and Assessment (2015).- Section II: Research.- Prelude II Section A: Methodology and Pedagogy.- Chapter 11: Research as Art:  New Directions for Dance Educators (1985).- Chapter 12: Body of Knowledge (1995).- Chapter 13: Teaching research and writing to dance artilƒS