2nd Edition
Undergraduate Research in Dance A Guide for Students
Undergraduate Research in Dance: A Guide for Students supplies tools for scaffolding research skills, alongside examples of undergraduate research in dance scholarship. This second edition has been updated throughout for current students, with new chapters on mentoring and dance studies.
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. A new chapter 10 provides guidelines for mentoring undergraduate students in dance. Chapters 11–21 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. A new chapter on Dance Studies has been added to this second edition. The book also includes 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 and globally.
Suitable for both professors and students, this book is an ideal reference book for dance studies as well as humanities and arts courses intersecting with dance.
1. Overview
Lynnette Young Overby and Gregory Young
2. Literature Reviews
Jenny Olin Shanahan
3. Choosing Topics and Formulating Appropriate Research Questions or Project Goals
Jenny Olin Shanahan
4. Working with Human Subjects
Jenny Olin Shanahan
5. Collecting Data
Jenny Olin Shanahan
6. Analyzing and Synthesizing Data
Jenny Olin Shanahan
7. Arts-Based Research in Dance
Ann-Thomas Moffett
8. Citing Sources
Jenny Olin Shanahan
9. Dissemination of Results
Jenny Olin Shanahan and Gregory Young
10. Mentoring
Lynnette Young Overby and Douglas Risner
11. Dance Therapy
Sharon W. Goodill
12. Interdisciplinary Projects
Lynnette Young Overby
13. Public Scholarship and Dance
Lynnette Young Overby
14. Choreography as Research
Lynnette Young Overby
15. Dance Studies
Monica J. Cameron Frichtel and Ellen Gerdes
16. Cultural Studies in Dance
Lynnette Young Overby
17. The Discovery of Knowledge in Dance History
Lynnette Young Overby and Colleen Hooper
18. Dance Science
Rachel DeLauder
19. Psychological and Cognitive Aspects of Dance
Lynnette Young Overby
20. Application and activation: choreography interacting with digital media
Mary Lynn Babcock
21. Dance Education
Lynnette Young Overby, Lucy Font and Megan LaMotte
22. On- Line Resources
April Singleton, Marissa Jackson and Lynnette Young Overby
Biography
Lynnette Young Overby is Professor of Theatre and Dance (retired) at the University of Delaware, USA, and currently a Research Associate with the Arnhold Institute for Dance Education, Research, Policy and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, USA. She is also past Director of Research for dance and the Child international. Overby has co-organized poster sessions for the National Dance Education Organization for several years.
Gregory Young is Professor Music at Montana State University, USA, and has held ongoing posts in conferences of undergraduate research and in curriculum development.
Jenny Olin Shanahan is Assistant Provost for High Impact Practices at Bridgewater State University, USA, and has held numerous leadership roles with the Council for Undergraduate Research.
Praise for the first edition:
"This text supports current best practices in dance research and education, and I recommend it both as an introduction to undergraduate students and as a pedagogical resource for instructors."
Edward C.Warburton, National Dance Education Organisation
