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Movement-based experiential learning in dance/movement therapy graduate education: facilitating and hindering factors for competency development
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Movement-based experiential learning in dance/movement therapy graduate education: facilitating and hindering factors for competency development

Eri Millrod
Body, movement and dance in psychotherapy, v 20(1), pp 74-90
02 Jan 2025
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17432979.2024.2339877
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Psychology, Clinical Psychology Social Sciences
Dance and movement are used as the primary means of learning in graduate education programmes for dance/movement therapy in the United States. This paper reports the findings of a qualitative study that used thematic analysis to identify factors that facilitate and hinder student learning in movement-based experiential learning. Learning was facilitated when the learning community, the students, and the faculty worked synergistically and enabled the students to enter personal journeys into developing competencies and the self of the therapist. Factors that hindered learning were those that were internal to the learner, such as their mental, emotional, and physical states, as well as factors that were external to the learners. These included lack of clarity about the purposes for experiential learning, unclear boundaries, and lack of structure. Social constructivist embodied pedagogy is proposed as a pedagogical philosophy for movement-based experiential learning.

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