The dilemmas of teaching for creativity: Insights from expert specialist dance teachers

Thinking Skills and Creativity

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 39-56

  Chappell, Kerry ^a  

^a Laban   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Creativity; Dance pedagogy; Dilemmas; Embodied knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847229456     PISSN: 18711871     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tsc.2007.01.001     Document Type: Article

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