Undergraduate research in dance : a guide for students / Lynnette Young Overby, Jenny Olin Shanahan, and Gregory Young.

Author/creator Overby, Lynnette Young author.
Other author Shanahan, Jenny Olin, author.
Other author Young, Gregory (Professor of music), author.
Format Book
PublicationAbingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
Copyright Date©2019
Descriptionxviii, 181 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Dance--Study and teaching (Higher).
Dance--Research. --Methodology.

SeriesRoutledge undergraduate research series
Routledge undergraduate research series. ^A1410845
Contents Overview -- Literature reviews -- Choosing topics and formulating appropriate research questions or project goals -- Working with human subjects -- Collecting data -- Analyzing and synthesizing data -- Arts-based research in dance -- Citing sources -- Dissemination of results -- Dance/movement therapy -- Interdisciplinary projects -- Public scholarship and dance -- Choreography as original research -- Cultural studies in dance -- The discovery of knowledge in dance history -- Dance science -- Psychological and cognitive aspects of dance -- Application and activation: choreography interacting with digital media -- Dance education -- Online resources.
Summary This book supplies tools for scaffolding research skills alongside examples of undergraduate research in dance scholarship. 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. Students will learn skills such as how to choose a research topic, refine research questions, conduct literature reviews, cite sources, synthesize and analyze data, develop conclusions and results, and present their findings. Chapters 10-19 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. The book also includes a final chapter which provides 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. Suitable for both professors and students, Undergraduate Research in Dance is an ideal reference book for any course that has a significant opportunity for the creation of new knowledge, or as an essential interdisciplinary connection between dance and other disciplines.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Overby, Lynnette Young. Undergraduate research in dance. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019 9781351052986
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