K-12 Dance Method to Teach Creative Dance, English, Math and Science

Paul Moerman is a dancer, an actor and a literary translator, educated at Stockholm University of the Arts and Valand Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He is a teacher educator at Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden and a doctoral candidate in Arts Education at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Formerly a civil engineer and an architect educated at Ghent University, Belgium and the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, he has worked as an architect in Belgium, Sweden and the USA. Along with his artistic work on stage and film, he has pursued a teaching career in dance, drama and creative writing, as artistic expressions in their own right, and integrated these in the teaching of language, math, science and philosophy. He has been teaching for thirty years in preschool, elementary and secondary school, inclusive education and after-school activities, and at teacher educations at universities in Sweden, Finland, the Netherlands and Australia. He has designed a teaching and learning methodology drawing on dance, featuring the programs Dancing through the Alphabet, Dancing Math, Dancing Natural Sciences and Dancing with Each Other. He has published and presented his research on dance in/as education world-wide. Modelled on his practice of dance teaching/letting dance teach, he formulates a concept of esthetic teaching, advocating an esthetic turn in education.

• Part I Teaching Dance: A Theory.- Ontology and Epistemology.- Part II Teaching Dance : A Method.- The nature and elements of dance.- Dancing with each other.- Part III Letting Dance Teach Language, Mathematics and Natural sciences.- Dancing Through the Alphabet.- Dancing Through the Alphabet.- Dancing Natural Sciences.- Summary Letting dance teach : a plea for aesthetic teaching.