Dancing from the Inside Out: Lessons in the Body as Text

Authors

  • Pamela Young University of Calgary

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.20360/G2160V

Abstract

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.

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Published

1944-12-31

How to Cite

Young, P. (1944). Dancing from the Inside Out: Lessons in the Body as Text. Language and Literacy, 7(1). https://doi.org/10.20360/G2160V

Issue

Vol:7 No.1 (2005)

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