TY  - BOOK
AU  - Adrienne N. Sansom
PY  - 2011
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1058-1634
TI  - Movement and Dance in Young Children’s Lives
T2  - Crossing the Divide
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1108616
N2  - In the pedagogical landscape of early childhood, physical movement is central to the holistic development of young children. Yet, movement-related experiences and other bodily activities such as play and dance often present contradictions and conundrums for early childhood educators. As a mode of learning, movement has endured a questionable existence despite the evidence of supportive research and theory, which provides sound reasons for the inclusion of movement in early years curricula. Movement and Dance in Young Children’s Lives looks at the place of movement in young children’s lives and addresses how movement as a form of expression can become dance, thus displacing a reliance on linguistic modes of expression and honoring the agency of the body. It also discusses a variety of concerns and confusions that accompany dance in education, and interprets what this means to students and teachers in teacher education programs and early childhood settings.
KW  - Movement, Dance, Early Years Pedagogy
LA  - English
ER  -