Journal Articles
Dancing class: Schooling the dance in colonial and post-colonial Hong Kong
- Dancing class: Schooling the dance in colonial and post-colonial Hong Kong
- Sport, Education and Society, 12(1), 73-92, 2007
- Routledge
- 2007
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- Hong Kong
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- 1990-1997.6
- 1997.7 onwards
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- Secondary Education
- Dance education has not played a significant role in Hong Kong schools. Teacher education may be at a crossroads in determining its future directions in relation to dance as art rather than physical activity. Taking Marcel Mauss's characterizations of the techniques of the body as the ways in which, from society to society, people learn how to use their bodies, this paper looks back at the context in which forms of dance education were introduced into the physical education curriculum of Hong Kong schools and examines social, cultural and political constraints upon their directions and development in a colonial and post-colonial society. Viewing dance education as forms of socially mediated practices, we show how bodies that are subjected to formal and informal programmes of dance education can be both inscribed and inscribing. Developments in dance education inevitably involve statements about the body, attempts to capture it, impose disciplines upon it, or mitigate their force. To reflect upon Hong Kong's changing destiny is to ask how the history of colonialism's disciplining of the body can be shaken loose from the domination of categories and ideas it produced and incorporated into the educational system, and what potency might dance education practices have in the future for troubling and negotiating meanings around identity and "Chinese-ness". [Copyright of Sport, Education and Society is the property of Routledge. Full article may be available at the publisher's website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13573320601081575 ]
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- English
- Journal Articles
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- 13573322
- https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/en/bibs/bee99619
- 2010-09-08
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