Description
Undergraduate Research in Dance: A Guide for Students supplies tools for scaffolding research skills alongside examples of undergraduate research in dance scholarship. Dance can be studied as an expressive embodied art form with physical, cognitive, and affective domains, and as an integral part of society, history, and vast areas of interdisciplinary content. To this end, the guidance provided by this book will equip future dance professionals with the means to move the field of dance forward.
Chapters 1–9 guide students through the fundamentals of research methods, providing a foundation to help students get started in understanding research protocols and processes. Students will learn skills such as how to choose a research topic, refine research questions, conduct literature reviews, cite sources, synthesize and analyze data, develop conclusions and results, and present their findings. Chapters 10–19 detail forms of undergraduate research in a rich diversity of fields within dance that are taught in many collegiate dance programs including dance therapy, history, science, psychology, education, and technology, in addition to public scholarship, choreography, and interdisciplinary topics. The book also includes a final chapter which provides annotated online resources, and many of its chapters are supported by examples of abstracts of capstone projects, senior theses, and conference presentations by undergraduate researchers across the United States.
Suitable for both professors and students, Undergraduate Research in Dance is an ideal reference book for any course that has a significant opportunity for the creation of new knowledge, or as an essential interdisciplinary connection between dance and other disciplines.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Series Foreword
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
- Overview
Lynnette Young Overby and Gregory Young - Literature Reviews
Jenny Olin Shanahan - Choosing Topics and Formulating Appropriate Research Questions or Project Goals
Jenny Olin Shanahan - Working with Human Subjects
Jenny Olin Shanahan - Collecting Data
Jenny Olin Shanahan - Analyzing and Synthesizing Data
Jenny Olin Shanahan - Arts-Based Research in Dance
Ann-Thomas Moffett - Citing Sources
Jenny Olin Shanahan - Dissemination of Results
Jenny Olin Shanahan - Dance/Movement Therapy
Sharon W. Goodill - Interdisciplinary Projects
Lynnette Young Overby - Public Scholarship and Dance
Lynnette Young Overby - Choreography as Original Research
Lynnette Young Overby - Cultural Studies in Dance
Lynnette Young Overby - The Discovery of Knowledge in Dance History
Lynnette Young Overby - Dance Science
Rachel M. Delauder - Psychological and Cognitive Aspects of Dance
Lynnette Young Overby - Application and activation: choreography interacting with digital media
Mary Lynn Babcock - Dance Education
Lynnette Young Overby, Lucy Font and Megan LaMotte - OnLine Resources
April Singleton and Lynnette Young Overby
Index
