抄録
The purpose of this study was to characterize outcome of dance and the scope theory in National Standards for Dance Education (NSDE) in USA. To achieve this objective, description on content standard in NSDE was analyzed based on four domains (motor, cognitive, affective, social).
Main findings of this study were followings ;
1) Content for dance education was consisted in 7 content areas and
2) Content was focused on motor and cognitive domains in related with scientific knowledge.
The way of setting scope based on expected competencies in dance education in USA would be one of the alternatives in comparison with that of in Japanese Course of Study.
