Development of Undergraduate Dance Education Program

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24243062
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Educational psychology
• Research Institution: The University of Tokyo
• Principal Investigator: Okada Takeshi 東京大学, 教育学研究科(研究院), 教授 (70281061)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): HIRASHIMA Masaya 国立研究開発法人情報通信研究機構, 研究員 (20541949)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): NOZAKI Daichi 東京大学, 教育学研究科, 教授 (70360683) ; STRUZIK Zbigniew 東京大学, 教育学研究員 (10422388)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-10-31 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 教育系心理学 / 創造性 / ダンス

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this research was to collect detailed and empirical data related to the scene of dancers’ actual dance performance and creation of expression in order to identify important factors for dance expression. We also aimed to develop and test undergraduate dance education programs based on the empirical findings. For its purpose, we conducted (1) interview with expert dancers, (2) longitudinal fieldwork of scenes of expert dancers’ creation of choreography and acquisition of expression, (3) experiment on improvised expression, and (4) development and testing of undergraduate dance education programs based on the empirical findings.

Free Research Field

社会科学