Critical Dance Pedagogy through Discourse and Practice hybrid symposium events.
Our approach
This 18-month AHRC funded dance educator’s network: Critical Dance Pedagogy through Discourse and Practice, aims to raise awareness of socially embedded assumptions and dominant structural power relations that produce unjust educational and socio-cultural outcomes. As disciplines, dance and dance education are not immune to these numerous inequities and injustices.
The network will connect academics, dance educators, researchers, artists, industry stakeholders in the UK with international peers in Scandinavia/Nordic and US as guest speakers, to support collaboration, and maximise opportunities for new thinking on the topic of Critical Dance Pedagogy, particularly understandings of equity, diversity and inclusion and student-centred pedagogy, through practice (Artist Lab) and discourse (four hybrid symposium events).
“Critical Dance Pedagogy enables taken-for-granted assumptions that have existed in dance education to be revealed, and power dynamics in the dance teaching and learning relationship to be challenged”
