Attitudes towards an educational dance programme for Form 1 and Form 2 girls

Abstract

According to the social learning theory, an individual tends to reproduce attitudes, acts and emotions by observation of live or symbolic models (Hana, 1998: p.158). If so, people gain their attitudes towards a subject, only if they have actually observed or seen it in some form of action. Educational Dance is a very new subject and many students and teachers have no idea what Educational Dance is and built their attitudes, acts and emotions on dance from every day life or types of dance that is performance art more than educational. This study gives students and teachers an educational dance model from which they can build a proper opinion on this new subject. This study investigates if it would be beneficial for students to learn Educational Dance from form 1, instead of when they choose PE as an option. There was a need for an Educational Dance programme, so the study included Experimental Teaching Units on Educational Dance in their Physical Education lesson. It also consisted of examining their attitudes towards Educational Dance before, and after the lessons. After the study, the subjects had a better picture on Educational Dance and therefore would not be new to them if they choose PE as an option later on. Physical, psychological, social and personal development issues were tackled through the questionnaires.