Strange encounters in times of distancing: Sustaining dialogue through integrating language and dance in primary education
This article focuses on experiences of resuming contact instruction in a project that integrated language and dance in a Finnish primary school during the COVID-19 pandemic. The article aims to explore how it is possible to sustain dialogue in times of distancing. It turns these exceptional, messy c...
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Cappelen Damm Akademisk NOASP
2022-08-01
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| description | This article focuses on experiences of resuming contact instruction in a project that integrated language and dance in a Finnish primary school during the COVID-19 pandemic. The article aims to explore how it is possible to sustain dialogue in times of distancing. It turns these exceptional, messy conditions into an opportunity to reconfigure the practice of embodied language learning. Through performative writing, the article weaves together the experiences and observations of the first author, a dance teacher, and two school teachers, and presents their reflections of embodied pedagogical practice in a transformed school reality. The narrative focuses on events and encounters that deviated from customary classroom situations, and the challenges, difficulties, and possibilities that emerged in seeking to explore pedagogical practices that made it possible to sustain dialogue. The authors argue that dance and language integration was able to support dialogue in early language education even when touching was not possible, materials not available, and distancing changed normal practices. It engaged both pupils and teachers in exploring new ways of communicating and co-existing in strange, more-than-human relations. The authors conclude that integrating language and dance offers a pedagogical tool for sustaining dialogue in a complex and continuously changing world. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b79ac19158d54df1badc04121d2c92a42022-12-22T04:27:57ZdanCappelen Damm Akademisk NOASPJournal for Research in Arts and Sports Education2535-28572022-08-0163456210.23865/jased.v6.3553jased.v6.3553Strange encounters in times of distancing: Sustaining dialogue through integrating language and dance in primary educationKaisa KorpinenEeva AnttilaThis article focuses on experiences of resuming contact instruction in a project that integrated language and dance in a Finnish primary school during the COVID-19 pandemic. The article aims to explore how it is possible to sustain dialogue in times of distancing. It turns these exceptional, messy conditions into an opportunity to reconfigure the practice of embodied language learning. Through performative writing, the article weaves together the experiences and observations of the first author, a dance teacher, and two school teachers, and presents their reflections of embodied pedagogical practice in a transformed school reality. The narrative focuses on events and encounters that deviated from customary classroom situations, and the challenges, difficulties, and possibilities that emerged in seeking to explore pedagogical practices that made it possible to sustain dialogue. The authors argue that dance and language integration was able to support dialogue in early language education even when touching was not possible, materials not available, and distancing changed normal practices. It engaged both pupils and teachers in exploring new ways of communicating and co-existing in strange, more-than-human relations. The authors conclude that integrating language and dance offers a pedagogical tool for sustaining dialogue in a complex and continuously changing world.https://jased.net/index.php/jased/article/view/3553/6700embodied language learningearly language educationdance educationembodied researchperformative writing |
| spellingShingle | Kaisa Korpinen Eeva Anttila Strange encounters in times of distancing: Sustaining dialogue through integrating language and dance in primary education Journal for Research in Arts and Sports Education embodied language learning early language education dance education embodied research performative writing |
| title | Strange encounters in times of distancing: Sustaining dialogue through integrating language and dance in primary education |
| title_full | Strange encounters in times of distancing: Sustaining dialogue through integrating language and dance in primary education |
| title_fullStr | Strange encounters in times of distancing: Sustaining dialogue through integrating language and dance in primary education |
| title_full_unstemmed | Strange encounters in times of distancing: Sustaining dialogue through integrating language and dance in primary education |
| title_short | Strange encounters in times of distancing: Sustaining dialogue through integrating language and dance in primary education |
| title_sort | strange encounters in times of distancing sustaining dialogue through integrating language and dance in primary education |
| topic | embodied language learning early language education dance education embodied research performative writing |
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