Dancing to Learn
eBook - PDF

Dancing to Learn

The Brain's Cognition, Emotion, and Movement

  1. 231 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Dancing to Learn

The Brain's Cognition, Emotion, and Movement

About this book

Dancing to Learn: Cognition, Emotion, and Movement explores the rationale for dance as a medium of learning to help engage educators and scientists to explore the underpinnings of dance, and dancers as well as members of the general public who are curious about new ways of comprehending dance. Among policy-makers, teachers, and parents, there is a heightened concern for successful pedagogical strategies. They want to know what can work with learners. This book approaches the subject of learning in, about, and through dance by triangulating knowledge from the arts and humanities, social and behavioral sciences, and cognitive and neurological sciences to challenge dismissive views of the cognitive importance of the physical dance. Insights come from theories and research findings in aesthetics, anthropology, cognitive science, dance, education, feminist theory, linguistics, neuroscience, phenomenology, psychology, and sociology. Using a single theory puts blinders on to other ways of description and analysis. Of course, all knowledge is tentative. Experiments necessarily must focus on a narrow topic and often use a special demographic—university students, and we don't know the representativeness of case studies.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Prelude: To Dance Is Cognitive, Emotional, and Moving
  4. Ch01. The Brain Choreographs Dance-Maker, Dancer, and Spectator
  5. Ch02. The Mentality and Matter of Learning through Dance
  6. Ch03. Brain-Changing Dance Venues: From Street/Studio/Classroom to Stage and Back
  7. Ch04. The Dancing Brain Leaves No One Behind
  8. Ch05. Mind and Emotion in Learning Self, Cultural,and National Identities through Dance
  9. Finale and Révérence
  10. Appendix A: Tools to Reveal the Dancing Brain
  11. Appendix B: Introducing Dance, Even to Nondancers
  12. References
  13. Index