Having Fun: A New Practice of Hip Hop Dance Curriculum for Seven Girls at an Elementary School Club

• Main Authors: LEE, YEN-YI, 李彥儀
• Other Authors: CHANG, CHUNG-SHIUAN
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2019
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/35yxew

碩士 === 國立臺北藝術大學 === 舞蹈研究所 === 107 === After I studied in dance at graduate school as a street dancer, I got an opportunity to teach Hip-hop dance in Zhuwei Elementary school through serendipity. I designed a unique Hip-hop curriculum that combined my Hip Hop dance experience and teaching method that I learned in graduate school. During the teaching process, I observed each student’s change and advance, also introspect my curriculum design from the records and feedbacks. During the weekly recording and analyze, I discovered some positive effects on my students. My research purposes are addressed as follows. 1. Examine the creative Hip Hop dance curriculum design and the effect of teaching. 2. Discuss the learning situation of elementary school students on creative Hip Hop dance curriculum. 3. Researcher could introspect during the teaching process and bring up some meaningful suggestions. My research combines action and research. The action includes research planning, curriculum designing, teaching, reflecting and fixing while teaching, exchanging in Japan, and reflecting after exchanging. The research findings include: the creative Hip Hop dance course could strengthen students’ body rhythm, body awareness, appreciation ability, and expression ability; students could choreograph with dance steps; free grouping allows students to learn teamwork; teacher’s image guide could arouse students' imagination of the effort graph of the movement; command games are helpful for class management, also enhance students' concentration. Researcher made changes and advances through the study. Therefore, the final chapter reflects on the curriculum and teaching. Then, according to the curriculum content, put forward suggestions and self-expectations for future research. Key words: Hip Hop dance, Curriculum design, Dance teaching