Early Twentieth-Century Dance Education and the Female Body -- Nineteenth-Century Responses to Women's Health and Sexuality: Art, Fashion, Dance -- Women, Physical Activity, Education: A Nineteenth-Century Perspective -- Blanche Trilling: Leader and Visionary in Women's Physical Education -- Margaret H'Doubler and the Liberty of Thought -- Margaret H'Doubler and the Philosphy of John Dewey -- Structuring Experience in the Classroom: Margaret H'Doubler Brings Dance to the University, 1917- -- Margaret H'Doubler's Classroom: Educational Progressivism in Theory and Action -- Margaret H'Doubler's Legacy: Dance and the Performing Body in the American University -- Dance's Skeleton
Summary:
""Moving Lessons" explores the origins and influence of dance in American universities, focusing on Margaret H'Doubler (1889-1982), who established the first university courses and the first degree program in dance. This second edition features new details on H'Doubler's radical pedagogy and reflections on recent developments in dance studies and education"-- Provided by publisher.
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