Dance education around the world : perspectives on dance, young, people and change / edited by Charlotte Svendler Nielsen and Stephanie Burridge.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Curriculum developments worldwide -- 1.1.Applied dance curriculum: a global perspective / Susan R. Koff -- 1.2.An Australian dance curriculum for social justice: potentials and possibilities / Robyne Garrett -- 1.3.Reciprocal engagement in dance: empowering encounters in New Zealand early childhood settings / Adrienne Sansom -- 1.4.From concept to classroom: challenges facing the implementation of the dance curriculum in the Western Cape of South Africa / Sharon Friedman -- 1.5.Dance in the New Zealand classroom: making connections / Liz Melchior -- 1.6.Creative dance education in a Singapore primary school / Lim Mei Chian -- pt. II Empowering communities through dance -- 2.1.Exploring the rights of the First Nations child through the arts: our dreams matter too / Mary-Elizabeth Manley -- 2.2.Dancing beyond the post-trauma paradigm: community projects in the Occupied Palestinian Territories / Nicholas Rowe Note continued: 2.3.The politics of dance education in post-revolutionary Cairo / Rosemary Martin -- 2.4.Traditional dance in Ghanaian schools: maintaining national identity through the involvement of youth and children / Beatrice Ayi -- 2.5.Negotiating multiple spheres of identity: a Filipino dance community in Toronto, Canada / Catherine Limbertie -- pt. III Embodiment and creativity in dance teaching -- 3.1.Dance as embodied dialogue: insights from a school project in Finland / Eeva Anttila -- 3.2.The transformative impact of dance experiences in Brazil / Alba Pedreira Vieira -- 3.3.Dialogue and `pedagogical love': atmosphere and reflexivity in dance / Isto Turpeinen -- 3.4.Teaching for better lives: the philosophy of a Jamaican dance teacher / Carolyn Russell-Smith -- 3.5.`The Summer Workshop of Dance Education for Children' at Tainan University of Technology, Taiwan / JuanAnn Tai -- pt. IV Exploring and assessing learning in dance as artistic practice Note continued: 4.1.Rethinking standards and assessment in dance education / Susan W. Stinson -- 4.2.Exploring learning in dance as artistic-educational practice / Charlotte Svendler Nielsen -- 4.3.Stepping into skin: expanding empathy through dance / Marin Leggat Roper -- 4.4.Making the learning visible in creative dance education / Marc Richard -- 4.5.Watching dance to discover `new worlds' / Liesbeth Wildschut -- pt. V Imagined futures for dance education -- 5.1.Dance education: embodied knowing in the digitalised world / Ann Kipling Brown -- 5.2.Partnerships for creativity: expanding teaching possibilities / Veronica Jobbins -- 5.3.Stepping back to step forward: reflections on future directions for dance education / Ralph Buck -- 5.4.Twinning: an intercultural approach to dance education / Maria Speth -- 5.5.The Post Natyam Collective: building a grassroots artistic community online / Cynthia Ling Lee.

Dance has the power to change the lives of young people. It is a force in shaping identity, affirming culture and exploring heritage in an increasingly borderless world. Creative and empowering pedagogies are driving curriculum development worldwide where the movement of peoples and cultures generates new challenges and possibilities for dance education in multiple contexts. In Dance Education around the World: Perspectives on Dance, Young People and Change, writers across the globe come together to reflect, comment on and share their expertise and experiences. The settings are drawn from a spectrum of countries with contributions from Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, Asia, the Pacific and Africa giving insights and fresh perspectives into contrasting ideas, philosophies and approaches to dance education from Egypt to Ghana, Brazil to Finland, Jamaica to the Netherlands, the UK, USA, Australia, New Zealand and more.