Open AccessDancing from the Inside Out: Lessons in the Body as Text
Author(s) -
Pam Young
Publication year - 1944
Publication title -
language and literacy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1496-0974
DOI - 10.20360/g2160v
Subject(s) - dance , literacy , class (philosophy) , sociology , pedagogy , critical literacy , visual arts , mathematics education , psychology , art , computer science , artificial intelligence
Teachers who have been literally “born and raised” into the tradition of print-based literacy teaching may experience difficulty with conceptualizing and implementing multiple literacies and multiple texts into their classrooms. In this article, the author enrolls in a jazz dance class to gain “inside out” experience with dance as literacy and the body as text, and considers how dance can broaden the world of the literacy classroom.