Undergraduate Research in Dance: A Guide for Students / Edition 1

by Lynnette Young Overby, Jenny Olin Shanahan, Gregory Young

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138484122
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/18/2019
Series:	Routledge Undergraduate Research Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Lynnette Young Overby is Professor of Theatre and Dance at the University of Delaware and serves as Director of Research for Dance and the Child International. She has organized poster sessions for the National Dance Education Organization for several years.

Jenny Olin Shanahan is Assistant Provost for High Impact Practices at Bridgewater State University and has held numerous leadership roles with the Council for Undergraduate Research.

Gregory Young is Professor of Music at Montana State University and has held ongoing posts in conferences of undergraduate research and in curriculum development.

Table of Contents

1.     Overview

2.     Literature Reviews

3.     Choosing Topics and Formulating Appropriate Research Questions or Project Goals

4.     Working with Human Subjects

5.     Collecting Data

6.     Analyzing and Synthesizing Data

7.     Arts-Based Research in Dance

8.     Citing Sources

9.     Dissemination of Results

10.  Mentoring

11.  Dance Therapy

12.  Interdisciplinary Projects

13.   Public Scholarship and Dance

14.  Choreography as Research

15.  Dance Studies

16.  Cultural Studies in Dance

17.  The Discovery of Knowledge in Dance History

18.  Dance Science

19.  Psychological and Cognitive Aspects of Dance

20.  Application and activation: choreography interacting with digital media

21.  Dance Education

22.  On- Line Resources

Editorial Reviews

Praise for the first edition:

"This text supports current best practices in dance research and education, and I recommend it both as an introduction to undergraduate students and as a pedagogical resource for instructors." 

Edward C.Warburton, National Dance Education Organisation

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