Dance in the schools: a personal account.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Logan, Moira
- Source
- Theory Into Practice; Autumn84, Vol. 23, p300-302, 3p
- Subject
- Movement education
Dance education in elementary schools
Artists as teachers
Dancers
Dance education
United States education system
American artists
United States
- Language
- ISSN
- 00405841
Discusses the state of dance education in the United States based on the author's experiences as an artist in the studio and the classroom. Rare opportunity of children to encounter dance in schools due to the teachers' poor understanding of and discomfort with dance; Use of artist-in-the-schools programs to teach dance; Description of and the author's role in the Ohio State University's dance education program.