A Study on Position and Consciousness of Dancing in Physical Education in the Junior High School

By a Survey in Consciousness of Dancing Teachers and Students

Abstract

In order to clarify the reasons why junior highschool teachers and students dislike creative dancing, we have studied data collected from 67 junior highschools in Miyagi Prefecture hoping that such clarification will help teachers to heighten their students' consciousness of the importance of creative dancing.
The special point of this research is to compare students' consciousness of the importance of creative dancing with Miura's analysis of the degree of satisfaction to be derived from imitation and transformation by continuous rhythmical movements. From the teachers' point of view, we studied their willingness to teach dancing and effective methods of teaching from three points of view: emotional, social and cognitive.