The guide suggests ways to incorporate arts activities into the curriculum for severely and profoundly handicapped students. The guide was developed through the work of visiting art teams consisting of artists in music, visual arts, dance/movement, and drama. The resulting guide was field tested at five sites. Activities are aimed at three levels…

Despite exclusion from the mainstream of society in the late 1800s and the early part of this century, Chinese American youth in the Los Angeles (California) area adopted the sports of this country. Chinese American baseball and basketball teams competed with each other and with teams from the Japanese American community. Football was also played…

This resource package has been designed to assist the instructor in using modern rhythmic gymnastics (MRG) to support the objectives cited in the "K-12 Physical Education Curriculum Guide," developed by the Manitoba Department of Education. MRG is based on scientific principles of movement, and makes use of small, hand-held apparatus…

Dance is a common metaphor in both the change and leadership literature. However, can dance, a movement art, actually be used to learn about leadership? The answer is yes and this exercise shows you how. Dance as an instructional strategy allows the instructor to tap the cognitive, affective, and conative components of the brain.

Author criticized the low priority given to the arts in schools. (Editor/RK)

The monograph on creative arts for severely handicapped persons presents 18 papers on program development and implementation. Among topics addressed are personnel preparation, self expression as a human right, mainstreaming severely and profoundly handicapped children in creative arts, square dancing, adapting wheelchair dance, arts for the…

The manual provides suggestions on using records in physical education and recreation programs with handicapped persons and describes 181 records in terms of age level, use, and vendor. Brief summaries are also included for each record, and items are categorized according to major area of emphasis: general music, songs, and rhythms; movement…

The final booklet in a series on physical education and sports for the handicapped presents ideas for teaching dance to the physically disabled. Introductory sections consider the rehabilitation role of dance, physiological and psychological benefits, and facilities for dance instruction. Step-by-step suggestions are given for teaching ballroom…

Current research has indicated that one of the disadvantaged child's handicaps is a poor self-concept, which is generally reflected in an inability to adjust to the school's middle class setting and which results, in many cases, in educational disadvantage. In modern educational dance, the body is used both as a means of expression and as a…

GRADES OR AGES: Grades 7-12. SUBJECT MATTER: Physical Education--includes sections on a) team sports, b) individual and dual sports, and c) dance. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The first section presents a program description and general goals. The second section describes a) objectives, b) activities, c) understandings, d) teaching…

In this third edition, some amendments and additions have been made to the original text, first published in 1950. As in past editions, the relationship between the inner motivation of movement and the outer functioning of the body is explored. Acting and dancing are shown as activities deeply concerned with man's urge to establish values and…

This study was developed and approved as a pilot project preliminary to the major task of abstracting, classifying and assessing approximately one thousand dance research studies. Most of these studies are university sponsored, date from 1901 to the present, and are found on library shelves or in department files as master's theses. When the major…

This paper contends that sports, dance, and drama should be considered together when studying cultures for purposes of comparison because the basic elements of these three disciplines are found in all societies--primitive and advanced. The paper presents: (1) discussion of pertinent aspects of sport, dance, and drama; (2) examples of comparative…

Although it has been said that the women in Ancient Egypt enjoyed a reasonable state of social and professional equality with men, this paper presents an alternate theory--that women were second-class citizens whose physical prowess was secondary to their role as sex objects. It appears that men and women in Ancient Egypt often participated in the…

Rudolf Laban has influenced the introduction and development of modern educational dance as well as general education. Much of the available material concerning Laban is arts oriented; it is concerned with dance as an art form and is not focused towards the educational uses of Laban's ideas. This volume attempts to present materials relevant to…