The Action Research of Creative Dance to Lead Junior High School Students'' Self-identity

• Main Authors: Yu-Hsuan Lai, 賴昱璇
• Other Authors: Heng Ping
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/7k88mt

碩士 === 國立臺北藝術大學 === 藝術與人文教育研究所 === 99 === According to Erik H. Erikson’s psychosocial developmental theory, the most important task during adolescence developmental period is self-identity. Especially in today with pluralistic society and complex family structure filled with various information and relationship, the development of self-identity is an important perspective on establishing self-presence. The establishment of self-identity will increase self-value and career direction positively. Therefore it is necessary and meaningful that instructors help students to think about the subjectivity of oneself. 32 seven-grade students in Ching-Tian (an alias) Junior High School in Taipei were participated to proceed 45 minutes weekly, totally 8 weeks teaching period. In order to improve students’ self-identity in positive way, the researcher used creative dance as teaching method guiding students to understand themselves in many aspects such as time, body, space and individual characteristics. Teaching method included body exploration and game-type learning activities. Course planning and teaching records, reflective journals, students’ assignments, questionnaire, and interviews were used for data gathering, the conclusion were as follow. 1.The teaching method of guiding and self-exploring in creative dance curriculum was acceptable by students. Game-type activities were more effective. They can take the challenge from the courses. 2.From perception to awareness, from recognition to understanding, students have different levels of self-understanding. Through the interaction with others, they can understand their self-identity. Furthermore, they can review their learning process to raise their self-affirmation. 3.Creative dance can lead junior high school students developing a positive self-identity and they can increase the self-certainly during the cheerful exploration. The differences of gender won’t affect the result of this research. Based on the result from this research, we proposed some recommendations for further studies. Those valuable experiences and resources can be the useful references for further researchers and teachers on applying creative dance into teaching method.