The role of dance and ballet in education
Journal Title: Studies in Sport Humanities - Year 2016, Vol 19, Issue 19
Abstract
The article addresses the issue of the role of dance in education with particular emphasis on ballet. Dancing had a signifi cant impact on people’s lives since the dawn of history. Over time, the role of dance as changed, its social and educational signifi cance, which was discussed in the first part of the article. At the present time, dance also plays an important socio - educational function. The article presents the results of research on the role of contemporary dance carried out through scaling survey, interview and document analysis methods among students of ballet, choreographers, teachers and ballet school principals, ballet soloists. The subject of the research was dance as an art, which aimsto realize the value of education, and the main aim of the research wasto understand the value of education realized while dancing and getting to know the factors that help or disturb in internalizing these values. In this study, first of all, the values that are associated with practicing dance and educational effects of its practice were discovered. Research shows that dance has an impact on the development and implementation of educational values and its practice has a signifi cant impact on the effects of education in the cognitive, socio - moral, aesthetic, health fields and is associated with the development of creative processes. The effects of practicing dance are closely related to the educational values that it brings, and they can be both positive (mostly) and negative.<br/><br/>
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Katarzyna Czyżewska
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