What? Me? Teach dance? Background and confidence of primary preservice teachers in dance education across five countries

Autor:	Deirdre Russell-Bowie
Rok vydání:	2013
Předmět:	Self-efficacy Visual Arts and Performing Arts Dance media_common.quotation_subject The arts Visual arts education Education School teachers Dance education Perception Pedagogy Mathematics education Comparative education Psychology media_common
Zdroj:	Research in Dance Education. 14:216-232
ISSN:	1470-1111 1464-7893
DOI:	10.1080/14647893.2012.722614
Popis:	In primary schools across many countries, dance is now included within the arts key learning area with its own outcomes and content. But as future teachers of dance and other art forms, how do preservice generalist primary teachers perceive their background and confidence in relation to dance and dance education? This study investigates the background and confidence of preservice primary teachers from five countries in relation to dance and dance education. It involves 936 preservice non-specialist primary school teachers from Australia, Namibia, South Africa, the USA and Ireland who were enrolled in their first creative arts unit. This paper initially identifies the preservice teachers’ perceptions of their background and confidence in relation to dance and dance education. Then it examines if there is a difference between the preservice teachers’ perceptions of their own background and confidence in dance education in relation to their gender and country. Two scales were developed and tested for reliabi...
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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