LANDT: The Implementation of a Nonlinear Pedagogical Approach to Primary School Traditional Dance Teaching
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2018-08-28
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University of Delaware Library, Museums & Press
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The aim of the present article is the presentation of a Laban Notation-based method for Teaching Dance (LANTD), as a practical example of a movement-based, nonlinear pedagogical approach applied to primary school traditional dance teaching. The author examines relevant literature underpinning the design of open-ended and student-centered dance learning environments and explores the potential of employing complex and nonlinear pedagogies as a means to this end. Nonlinear pedagogies involve the manipulation of task, performer and environmental constraints in a facilitative manner so as to encourage movement pattern variability, exploratory learning and student selforganization to goal directed behaviors. In the present case, the principles of nonlinear pedagogies are outlined, based on the dynamic systems theory, and suitable explanations are given regarding their relation to the lesson framework of LANTD. Emphasis is put on analyzing the constraints-led framework of selected LANTD lesson activities, as the latter were implemented in a classroom of fourth-grade students, learning Greek traditional dance. These practical examples aim to further support primary dance teachers in envisioning ways to shift away from ‘closed’ technical teaching perspectives to practices undergirded by notions of young students’ mature movement acquisition and self-conscious development.
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Dania, A. (2018). LANDT: The Implementation of a Nonlinear Pedagogical Approach to Primary School Traditional Dance Teaching. Dance: Current Selected Research, 9.