"I feel like I'm going to take off!": Young people's experiences of the superordinary in dance
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Susan W. Stinson, Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: Work by children in every art form has been both romanticized and criticized by adults. Child art has been emulated as "natural" by artists seeking to free themselves from social and historical conventions (Lowenfeld and Brittain 1987; Read 1957, 1973) and to reconnect with qualities of purity and simplicity (Coleman 1998). Such values have been challenged by those seeking a rationale for instructional programs in the arts (Clark, Day, and Greer 1987). It often seems that educators view children as incomplete adults, in need of education and training to make them mature as well as civilized (Torgovnick 1990). This may be why the ideas and opinions of children are rarely found in research literature, even in education.
"I feel like I'm going to take off!": Young people's experiences of the superordinary in dance
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Dance Research Journal , 32 (2), 52-87
- Language: English
- Date: 2000
- Keywords
- Child art, Dance experience, Instructional programs