Creative Educational Dance and Children with Behavior Disorders: Encouraging a Spirit of Cooperation
Autor: | Susan A. McGhee, James T. Decker, Boni Boswell, Brandy Edwards-Duke |
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Rok vydání: | 2002 |
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Zdroj: | Journal of Dance Education. 2:23-31 |
ISSN: | 2158-074X 1529-0824 |
Popis: | Teachers in all disciplines strive to maximize time-on-tasks to enhance their students' learning. The purpose of this study was to compare the amount of time-on-task of children with behavior disorders during participation in a creative educational dance (CED) program with the time-on-task during participation in a small group gross motor (GM) activity program. The subjects, two males and one female, aged 8 to 11 years, were residents of a treatment home for children with behavior disorders located in southeastern U.S. A single subject, multi-treatment research design, was used. Baseline sessions consisted of the subjects' physical activity program provided by the resident staff. Intervention 1 consisted of CED and intervention 2 consisted of a GM activity program, both implemented by the first investigator. Data were collected during twenty-one, videotaped, 30-min sessions, for 12 weeks. Two investigators analyzed sessions by recording on-task and off-task behavior in 15-second intervals. Interr... |
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