[[alternative]]Research of the Process of Participation in Dance Recreation Activities

[[abstract]]Abstract This study’s goal lies in investigating the progress of participating in dance recreation activities. The research objects of this study are the Taipei County’s public junior high school teachers who are engaged in dance recreation activities. This study seeks to realistically understand the different kinds of recognition of dance recreation activities by public junior high school teachers and the external factors influencing their participation. It also seeks to understand the internal factors of the experience of perceived freedom from different dance recreation activities, and the importance and beneficial results of relaxing for public junior high school teachers when participating in dance recreation activities. This study uses a standardized open-ended questionnaire to collect and analyze data, and then investigates the relationship of teachers experiencing dance recreation activities and the progress of their participation. The results found: 1.) The influence of external factors and knowledge of junior high school teachers who choose to participate in dance recreation activities: The personal hopes and habits of teachers participating in dance recreation activities and the recognition of becoming mature can allow them to personally practice and participate in the enhancement of personal life quality, physical fitness and health needs. The external factors influencing teachers’ choices to participate in dance recreation activities are weather, environment, friends, gender, occupation, and family. Also, because the assigned roles played by teachers in school are different and because of the conduct and responsibilities of marriage in the family, “occupation” and “family” are external factors of influence that teachers cannot surmount. 2.) Public junior high school teachers’ experience of perceived freedom when participating in dance recreation activities: In the “feeling of qualification” section, teachers who participate have high abilities and skills, plentiful experience, and strong motives for participating. They also have the abilities to overcome the difficulties and challenges they encounter when engaging themselves in dance recreation activities. In the “feeling of control” section, the teachers feel that the influence of the processes and results of the complete dance recreation activities and the feeling of control when experiencing dance can give them perceived freedom. In the “process of plunging in” section, when teachers fully plunge themselves into dance recreation activities, they will feel excited and personally invigorated. It is not easy to be effected by the restrictions and interference of the influence of the outside world. When teachers are in the process of participating in dance, they have significant perceived freedom before having spontaneous moods. Their behavior and movements also produce playful moods. 3.) The importance and results of junior high school teachers participating in dance recreation activities: To the teachers who participate in dance recreation activities, the activities have already become a “Routine Task” in the center of their everyday lives. It is a kind of important recreational activity that cannot be neglected. The results of participating in dance recreation activities not only are helpful for teachers’ personal psychobiology, they also have positive influence on jobs, teaching, and family lifestyles. In the aspect of degree of satisfaction after participation, all of the junior high school teachers felt satisfied with the current dance recreation activities that they participated in. Currently, domestic junior high school teachers all have the same complaint that the location and times are inconvenient for hardware and software facilities and environments for participating in dance recreation activities. Also by actively making constructive suggestions for existing dance recreation activities, including what the schools should place importance on and how many activities should be held, this can bring about teachers’ dance recreation groups exerting great efforts to popularize and advocate the research and study of dance curriculum.