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(Re)centering the Body: Agitating Dance Science Research Methodologies
Elsa Urmston1,2
1London Contemporary Dance School, UK.
Summary
This study challenges positivist approaches in dance science by centering embodied knowledge. It advocates for rigorous, qualitative methodologies in dance research, emphasizing philosophical underpinnings for broader applicability.
Area of Science:
- Dance Science
- Research Methodology
- Embodied Cognition
Background:
- Expanding dance medicine and science research necessitates interdisciplinary approaches.
- Growing momentum for critical discourse on philosophical foundations in dance science.
- Need to reflect the embodied nature of dance practice in research methodologies.
Purpose of the Study:
- Extend methodological rigor discussions from dance for health research to broader dance science.
- Challenge prevailing notions of knowledge creation, ownership, and applicability by recentering participants' bodies as knowledge producers.
- Disrupt the largely positivist construction of knowledge in dance science using an interpretivist, feminist, ethnographic study.
Main Methods:
- Interpretivist, feminist, ethnographic study.
- Focus on periodisation in tertiary vocational dance education.
- Analysis of knowledge construction and research paradigms in dance science.
Main Results:
- Demonstrates how dance science can embrace socially constructed, subjectivist approaches with rigor.
- Highlights tensions between positivist and non-positivist research paradigms using periodisation research examples.
- Provides reflexive examples of researcher decision-making to aid critical examination of assumptions.
Conclusions:
- Advocates for coherent methodologies in qualitative dance science research.
- Emphasizes the importance of thoroughly considered philosophical underpinnings.
- Contributes to paradigmatic critiques in recent dance science literature, aiding researchers' practical thinking.
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