Binding: Paperback
Description: Undergraduate Research in Dance: A Guide for Students supplies tools for scaffolding research skills alongside examples of undergraduate research in dance scholarship. Dance can be studied as an expressive embodied art form with physical cognitive and affective domains and as an integral part of society history and vast areas of interdisciplinary content. To this end the guidance provided by this book will equip future dance professionals with the means to move the field of dance forward. Chapters 1 9 guide students through the fundamentals of research methods providing a foundation to help students get started in understanding research protocols and processes. Students will learn skills such as how to choose a research topic refine research questions conduct literature reviews cite sources synthesize and analyze data develop conclusions and results and present their findings. Chapters 10 19 detail forms of undergraduate research in a rich diversity of fields within dance that are taught in many collegiate dance programs including dance therapy history science psychology education and technology in addition to public scholarship choreography and interdisciplinary topics. The book also includes a final chapter which provides annotated online resources and many of its chapters are supported by examples of abstracts of capstone projects senior theses and conference presentations by undergraduate researchers across the United States. Suitable for both professors and students Undergraduate Research in Dance is an ideal reference book for any course that has a significant opportunity for the creation of new knowledge or as an essential interdisciplinary connection between dance and other disciplines.
Title: Undergraduate Research In Dance A Guide For Students
Author(s): Young Gregory (Montana State University Usa)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9781138484122
Pages: 182 Pages, 9 Halftones, Black And White; 16 Illustrations, Black And White
Publication Date: 1/18/2019
Series: Routledge Undergraduate Research Series
Category: Dance