The vision presented in this important book is compelling, particularly at this juncture, and it is made more so by the focus on positive practice and strategies for positive change. - Professor Christopher Bannerman, Middlesex University

Close Encounters: dance partners for creativity

by: Kerry Chappell, Linda Rolfe, Anna Craft and Veronica Jobbins

ISBN: 9781858564876

Price: £19.99

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184 pages
244x170mm
September 2011


Young people today need to be flexible, imaginative and resilient and to use their creativity holistically and appropriately. This exciting and original book shows how creativity and the special relationships that facilitate it can be nurtured through dance with education. Dance Partners for Creativity (DPC), an intensive two-year qualitative research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, underpins the book. The work described illustrates what dance-based partnerships in schools contribute to the educational futures that will have to be made possible in the 21st century.

With policy makers and practitioners facing questions of what is and what might be in the rapidly changing educational environment, the book offers enquiry and research-based ideas about dance-based partnership's role in current and future education. It will greatly enrich the thinking of practitioners, researchers and policy makers interested in arts practices and educational futures.

Author Details

Kerry Chappell, Linda Rolfe, Anna Craft and Veronica Jobbins, formed the university research team of DPC, which was based at the Graduate School of Education, University of Exeter and at Trinity Laban Dance and Music Conservatoire. Their expertise and influence ranges through dance educationand creativity in education practice, management, teacher-training and theory, both nationally and internationally. The book is enriched by the voices of the project's partner researchers, the experienced arts practitioners whowere co-researchers and co-authors alongside the university research team.

Contents

Part One: Opening the space

Chapter 1: Introducing the research project
Chapter 2: Creating fruitful research spaces: methodology

Part Two: Catalysing practice: Learning from the partner researchers

Chapter 3: The ‘double act’ of partnership; breaking the rules to explore new possibilities for dance pedagogy
Chapter 4: Embracing collaborative choreography on the path to creative engagement.
Chapter 5: Igniting the learning: understanding wisdom in practice
Chapter 6: Conversations on the role play in creative learning environments

Part Three: Creativity and partnership: but what kinds?

Chapter 7: Journeys of becoming: humanising creativity
Chapter 8: The development of partnership-based pedagogies
Chapter 9: Becoming meddlers in the middle: stretch, challenge and leap?

Part Four: From what is to what might be...

Chapter 10: Dance in a shifting landscape
Chapter 11: Not just surviving but thriving

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