How can dance education respond to our time? Dance Education and Pedagogies in Contemporary Contexts reimagines dance education as a site for critical inquiry, artistic innovation, and social change.
This volume explores the practices of dance educators active in glocal, contemporary contexts to promote critical change, work for the decolonisation of higher dance education, and challenge ableism in dance. It offers insights and multidimensional perspectives grounded in the educators’ work, situated in dialogue with a spectrum of critical theories. “Contemporary contexts” are here understood as how the urgent global concerns that shape our time – including commitments to social justice, equity, care, health, democratic resilience, ecological responsibility, peace, and human conditions in the wake of migration – inform, shape, and fundamentally challenge dance education and pedagogies.
The contributors are both practitioners and academics whose arts-led, critical, and choreographic practices reimagine dance education as inseparable from broader societal and planetary concerns. This book positions dance education and pedagogy not as isolated disciplines, but as deeply embedded in – and responsive to – the complexities of the world we live in.
The editors of the book
Tone Pernille Østern is Professor of Arts Education with a focus on Dance at the Department for Teacher Education at NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and Visiting Professor of Dance Education in Contemporary Contexts at Stockholm University of the Arts. She is editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed journal Dance Articulated.
Alfdaniels Mabingo holds a Ph.D. in Dance Studies from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is a lecturer and Chair of the Department of Performing Arts and Film at Makerere University, Uganda. He is a dance scholar, thinker, and performer. His research engages dance education, decolonisation, indigenisation, new African arts economies, and African philosophies.
Ami Skånberg obtained her PhD in Dance from the University of Roehampton. She is a performer, teacher, and artistic researcher. Skånberg is the current Head of M.A.D.E. – Master Dance Education at the Stockholm University of the Arts, and works at the University of Gothenburg.
Stockholm Studies in Education
Stockholm Studies in Education (ISSN 2003-6159) is a peer-reviewed and open access platform for publication of research in education. It aims to cover a broad range of academic monographs and edited volumes in education including, for example, adult learning; career development; citizenship education including cosmopolitanism, patriotism and nationalism; democracy and education; health and education; higher education; history of education; international studies; interaction, communication and learning; leadership and organization in schools and society; philosophy of education; policy studies; sociology of education, and vocational education and training.
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