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On Becoming a Teacher: Dance, Pedagogy, and the Debate over Dance Teacher Quality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2013

Edward C. Warburton
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Abstract

One of the most critical issues in education is teacher quality. In dance there is long-standing debate concerning which teaching skills tend to be weakest and thus comprise the most exigent threats to dance teacher quality. The requisite skills of teaching expertise have been broadly categorized as content knowledge (that is, expertise in the subject being taught) and pedagogical knowledge (that is, expertise in teaching techniques). Which of these sets of capacities (or lack thereof) more frequently cause dance teachers' work to be ineffective? Data from a series of original research studies, employing a range of methods, are considered.

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Research Article
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Congress on Research in Dance Conference Proceedings , Volume 41 , supplement S1: Global Perspectives On Dance Pedagogy: Research And Practice , 2009 , pp. 329 - 337
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2009

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