TY - GEN
T1 - Shall we dance? : a comparison of student teachers' background and confidence in dance education in relation to gender and age across five countries
AU - Russell-Bowie, Deirdre
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - ![CDATA[Until recently, dance education in many primary schools has been mainly taught within the physical education curriculum. With the advent of dance being documented as an important subject with the arts key learning area, with its own creative outcomes and content, it is consolidating its own identity as a serious art form. However, although both research and anecdotal evidence has indicated that fewer boys are involved in the arts, and especially dance, than girls (Senate Environment, Recreation, Communications and the Arts References Committee, 1995) there seems to be little research examining whether age or cultural background has any relationship to student teachers' background in dance or confidence in teaching dance in the primary school. This study involves 939 preservice non-specialist primary school teachers from Australia, Namibia, South Africa, USA (Illinois) and Ireland. The paper initially identifies the students' perceptions of their background and confidence in relation to dance and dance education. Then it examines if there is a difference between the students' perceptions of their own background and confidence in dance education in relation to their age, sex and country. Results indicate that there are significant differences in the means of responses from male and female students, from older and younger students and from students from the different countries in relation to both background and confidence in dance education.]]
AB - ![CDATA[Until recently, dance education in many primary schools has been mainly taught within the physical education curriculum. With the advent of dance being documented as an important subject with the arts key learning area, with its own creative outcomes and content, it is consolidating its own identity as a serious art form. However, although both research and anecdotal evidence has indicated that fewer boys are involved in the arts, and especially dance, than girls (Senate Environment, Recreation, Communications and the Arts References Committee, 1995) there seems to be little research examining whether age or cultural background has any relationship to student teachers' background in dance or confidence in teaching dance in the primary school. This study involves 939 preservice non-specialist primary school teachers from Australia, Namibia, South Africa, USA (Illinois) and Ireland. The paper initially identifies the students' perceptions of their background and confidence in relation to dance and dance education. Then it examines if there is a difference between the students' perceptions of their own background and confidence in dance education in relation to their age, sex and country. Results indicate that there are significant differences in the means of responses from male and female students, from older and younger students and from students from the different countries in relation to both background and confidence in dance education.]]
KW - dance
KW - study and teaching
KW - primary school teachers
KW - educational psychology
KW - attitudes
KW - cross-cultural studies
UR - http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/44959
M3 - Conference Paper
BT - Australian Association for Research in Education 2005 conference papers
PB - Australian Association for Research in Education
T2 - Australian Association for Research in Education. Conference
Y2 - 2 December 2012
ER -