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Embodiment In Online Education: Promising Practices, Mariah M. Lefeber, Tomoyo Kawano, Valerie Blanc
Embodiment In Online Education: Promising Practices, Mariah M. Lefeber, Tomoyo Kawano, Valerie Blanc
Faculty Publications - Graduate School of Counseling
Embodied experiential learning is central to dance/movement therapy (DMT) education. During the pandemic, DMT educators pivoted to hybrid-online educational delivery and attended to multiple dimensions of student learning and societal crises while attempting to maintain educational quality. Building on the Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework and embodied aesthetic theo-ries of care, the authors explored how educators and supervisors accounted for embodied learning in DMT education and training in an online setting. Data were generated and analysed reflexively from a preliminary conference workshop survey and workshop interactions. An aesthetic, relational experience of caring may be incorporated into an online learning space …
Interdisciplinary Integration: Linking Differentiated P(Arts) To Create Accessible Dance Experiences, Kate Corby, Mariah M. Lefeber, Mary L. Patterson
Interdisciplinary Integration: Linking Differentiated P(Arts) To Create Accessible Dance Experiences, Kate Corby, Mariah M. Lefeber, Mary L. Patterson
Faculty Publications - Graduate School of Counseling
This article introduces Performing Ourselves, an interdisciplinary community dance program that utilizes principles from dance education and dance/movement therapy to serve beginning dancers in grades PK-8 in schools and community centers. After defining the integrative elements of the curriculum, the article outlines how Performing Ourselves used the shift to virtual programming during the COVID-19 pandemic as a means of creating accessible dance opportunities. In addition to the exploration of how one arts organization approached this challenging time, the article offers ideas and further questions for integrative interdisciplinarity in the arts.