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"But Sir Dance is for Girls". Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, June 2009, Pages: 80
This investigation attempts to identify teaching
methods to motivate key stage 2 boys in dance. A
scheme of work was designed, implemented and taught
to the children in one year 3 class. The stimulus
used was the martial arts and computer games. The
study also explores why boys, teachers and society
have prejudices to dance and other subjects that are
perceived as feminine.
The report concludes that the martial arts were
successful in this study for the majority of
children especially the boys but a small number of
boys still had negative views about dance. This
suggests that they have very strong prejudices about
dance and what is perceived as feminine.
If boys are given a stimulus that they feel is not
feminine then they have no problem dancing in key
stage 2. It is the teachers, parents and society
that are prejudiced about dance not the children but
as our prejudices are passed on to the children,
then that what they learn. The study concludes that
teachers need to understand that boys will dance
differently to girls.
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