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Sexuality, Gender and Identity: Critical Issues in Dance Education book cover

1st Edition

Sexuality, Gender and Identity Critical Issues in Dance Education

Edited By Doug Risner, Julie Kerr-Berry Copyright 2016
128 Pages
by Routledge

140 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages
by Routledge
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Sexuality is a difficult topic for all educators. Dance teachers and educators are not immune to these educational challenges, especially given the large number of children, adolescents, and young adults who pursue dance study and performance. Most troubling is the lack of serious discourse in dance education and the development of educative strategies to promote healthy sexuality and empowered... Read more

1. Introduction

Doug Risner

2. Considering the Issue of Sexploitation of Young Women in Dance: K-12 Perspectives in Dance Education

Dawn Clark

3. The Impact of Sexuality in Contemporary Culture: An Interpretive Study of Perceptions and Choices in Private Sector Dance Education

Doug Risner, Heidi Godfrey and Linda C. Simmons

4. Sexuality and Sexual Identity: Critical Possibilities for Teaching Dance Appreciation and Dance History

Ann Dils

5. Perspectives: Sexuality and Dance in Higher Education

Luke Kahlich, Sherry B. Shapiro, Donna Davenport and Bill Evans

6. Examining Sexual Exploitation in Secondary Schools: Correlating Student Choreography and Teacher Efforts

Pamela S. Musil

7. The Hidden Curriculum of Gender in Dance Education

Susan W. Stinson

8. Lesbian Lacunae: Invisible Spaces in Dance Education

Karen A. Mozingo

9. Sexual Orientation and Male Participation in Dance Education: Revisiting the Open Secret

Doug Risner

10. Movement for Men: A Course Challenging the Notion that Male Students Don't Dance

Christina Tsoules Soriano and Karen Clemente

11. Policing Masculinity and Dance Reality Television: What Gender Nonconformity Can Teach Us in the Classroom

Mark A. Broomfield

12. HIV/AIDS in Dance Education: A Pilot Study in Higher Education

Doug Risner and Shara Thompson

13. Black Bodies in Dance Education: Charting a New Pedagogical Paradigm to Eliminate Gendered and Hypersexualized Assumptions

C. S'thembile West

14. The Politics of Personal Pedagogy: Examining Teacher Identities

Julie Kerr-Berry, Karen Clemente and Doug Risner

15. Embodied Subjectivities: Nine Young Women Talking Dance

Gabrielle O'Flynn, Zoe Pryor and Tonia Gray

Biography

Doug Risner is Professor of Dance at Wayne State University, Detroit, USA and is the author of Stigma and Perseverance in the Lives of Boys Who Dance (2009) and Hybrid Lives of Teaching Artists in Dance and Theatre Arts (2014) with Mary Anderson. He is associate editor of Research in Dance Education.

Julie A. Kerr-Berry is Professor and Director of Dance at Minnesota State University-Mankato, USA. She is a Fulbright Scholar (Indonesia), the recipient of the Outstanding Leadership Award from the National Dance Education Organization, and editor in chief emeritus of the Journal of Dance Education.

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