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Dance, and especially Greek traditional dance, as a subject with cognitive and kinesthetic content, constitutes -in an educational context-, a powerful tool for motor education and learning involved in literacy practices. The aim of this paper is to evaluate critical thinking skills of students taught Greek traditional dance with the morphological method of teaching, in the light of dance literacy. For that purpose, ethnographic research was conducted with three phases. Data collection was based on observation and interviews, while analysis and interpretation were based on the classification of “Delphi’s Report” critical thinking skills and “thick description”. It is determined that in both groups dance performance was improved, while differences imprinted in critical thinking skills, with the students that were taught with the morphological method to prevail. In summary, this teaching method meets all the criteria to rephrase Stolz’s notion of embodied learning, to learn “in”, “through”, and “about” dance
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Georgios Κ. Fountzoulas
holds a B.Sc. majoring in Greek Traditional Dance, a M.Sc. in Folklore-Dance Anthropology, a Ph.D. in Dance Studies and now he is a Post-doctoral Researcher in the School of Physical Education and Sport Science, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens. He also owns the Intermediate Certificate in Labanotation. He works as a Physical Education Teacher in Public Education, an external partner at the post-graduate program ‘Dance Education’ at the School of Physical Education and Sport Science, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and as a dance intructor in nonprofessional dance groups. His field of concern is Greek Traditional Dance, Ethnochoreology, Structural Analysis, Dance Pedagogy and Dance Literacy.
Dr. Maria Koutsouba
is Professor at the School of Physical Education and Sport Science (SPESS) at the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) and Tutor at the Hellenic Open University. Graduated from the SPESS (NKUA, 1989), she completed her Masters (MA) in Dance Studies (University of Surrey, 1991) and was awarded a doctorate in Ethnochoreology (University of London, 1997). Additionally, she is specialised in Labanotation and in Open & Distance Education. She is member of scientific organisations in Greece and abroad, while her research interests/publications focus on ethnochoreology/dance anthropology, dance notation, analysis and typology, and on educational innovations and wellbeing.
