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Article: 'Dancing class': Schooling the dance in colonial and post-colonial Hong Kong

Title'Dancing class': Schooling the dance in colonial and post-colonial Hong Kong
Authors
KeywordsColonialism
Dance education
Embodied practices
Hong Kong
Identity
Post-colonialism
Issue Date2007
PublisherRoutledge. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13573322.asp
Citation
Sport, Education And Society, 2007, v. 12 n. 1, p. 73-92 How to Cite?
AbstractDance education has not played a significant role in Hong Kong schools. Teacher education may be at a crossroads in determining its future directions in relation to dance as art rather than physical activity. Taking Marcel Mauss's characterizations of the techniques of the body as the ways in which, from society to society, people learn how to use their bodies, this paper looks back at the context in which forms of dance education were introduced into the physical education curriculum of Hong Kong schools and examines social, cultural and political constraints upon their directions and development in a colonial and post-colonial society. Viewing dance education as forms of socially mediated practices, we show how bodies that are subjected to formal and informal programmes of dance education can be both inscribed and inscribing. Developments in dance education inevitably involve statements about the body, attempts to capture it, impose disciplines upon it, or mitigate their force. To reflect upon Hong Kong's changing destiny is to ask how the history of colonialism's disciplining of the body can be shaken loose from the domination of categories and ideas it produced and incorporated into the educational system, and what potency might dance education practices have in the future for troubling and negotiating meanings around identity and 'Chinese-ness'. © 2007 Taylor & Francis.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/87933
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2023 Impact Factor: 2.3
2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.064
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dc.contributor.authorSit, Cen_HK
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dc.date.issued2007en_HK
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dc.description.abstractDance education has not played a significant role in Hong Kong schools. Teacher education may be at a crossroads in determining its future directions in relation to dance as art rather than physical activity. Taking Marcel Mauss's characterizations of the techniques of the body as the ways in which, from society to society, people learn how to use their bodies, this paper looks back at the context in which forms of dance education were introduced into the physical education curriculum of Hong Kong schools and examines social, cultural and political constraints upon their directions and development in a colonial and post-colonial society. Viewing dance education as forms of socially mediated practices, we show how bodies that are subjected to formal and informal programmes of dance education can be both inscribed and inscribing. Developments in dance education inevitably involve statements about the body, attempts to capture it, impose disciplines upon it, or mitigate their force. To reflect upon Hong Kong's changing destiny is to ask how the history of colonialism's disciplining of the body can be shaken loose from the domination of categories and ideas it produced and incorporated into the educational system, and what potency might dance education practices have in the future for troubling and negotiating meanings around identity and 'Chinese-ness'. © 2007 Taylor & Francis.en_HK
dc.languageengen_HK
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dc.subjectColonialismen_HK
dc.subjectDance educationen_HK
dc.subjectEmbodied practicesen_HK
dc.subjectHong Kongen_HK
dc.subjectIdentityen_HK
dc.subjectPost-colonialismen_HK
dc.title'Dancing class': Schooling the dance in colonial and post-colonial Hong Kongen_HK
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