Undervisning i dans : en intervjustudie om danslärares metoder

This essay reports dance teacher’s thoughts around their choice in teaching methods and how these choices can differ. The objective is to bring forth how dance teacher’s work is changing depending on group, age and dance experience. It’s about teacher’s thoughts concerning freedom of choice in methods towards what the institutions see as preferable methods through focus, purpose and ambition. The work is based on qualitative interviews with teachers who are active as dance teachers. Which institutions who regulate the teachers work and how, explanations of the teaching methods used by dance teachers. The literature shows the complexity of the profession, dance teacher, is up against and that the variation of different types of service can be determinant in choice of method. The result determines that the teacher’s choice of method differed depending on institutional requisites of the service, objective of the class and the individuals of the group. The teacher’s work was regulated from the institutional requisites of the service, regardless if the teacher was working with a Skapande skola project, voluntary work at art school or tutored in high school.Validerat; 20140623 (global_studentproject_submitter