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Thesis Based Research Introduction I know personally how much the specific form of dance has helped through the very difficult pre-teen to teenage years and beyond. Those years are about someone finding as much of them selves as they can, dance aided me with that. Never formally taking a dance class I danced on my own to get that release that I was striving for, which eventually gave me the confidence to dance in school shows. In my life I feel as though dance What I don’t understand is while the purpose of a high school is to prepare its student for life afterward, it seems as if the public school system does not extended beyond academically preparing students. The foundation of self-awareness, knowing who you are, plays an important part of whether or not you’re prepared to be independent. Any type of constructive expression gives a person that no matter what age but it is vital for a person going through the transition from child to adult. I wanted to know how specifically the benefits of a person going to a performing arts school. Then understand how the structure of a performing arts school compares to a public high school. Concluding my research I want to find public schools that have implemented dance into the schools. As of right now the most important research components that I've gathered is the research that would academically compare students from both schools.

Research Thesis Based Research 6. One of the difficulties that face performing and visual arts schools are the actual facilities used which are usually older school buildings, which do not usually provide a successful space for the school’s functions.
 * A. Rod, Daniel. “Performing and Visual Arts Schools: A Guide to Characteristics,**
 * Options, and Successes”. Secondary Gifted Education 12(2000): 43 – 48**
 * 1) “Researchers have asserted that education in the arts develops the problem- solving and critical thinking skills required to succeed in college…[by] understanding through exploration”(43)
 * 2) Complete List of Pro: (44)
 * 3) Potential to improve learning skills
 * 4) Promote student achievement
 * 5) Enhance social skills
 * 6) Stimulate personal growth and development
 * 7) Foster problem solving
 * 8) High order thinking
 * 9) Communication
 * 10) Teamwork
 * 11) Creativity
 * 12) “The ability to risk failure, an essential life skill, is practice daily in the arts”
 * 13) The elementary and high school leveled programs have been more successful and are growing opposed to middle school because of the inconsistency of grade levels in the middle school/ junior high school….6-8, 7-9, 4-7 (45)
 * 14) “Elementary has seen a growth because “most parents don’t feel threatened placing their elementary school- age child in an arts- focused school where as parents of high-school-age students may be concerned that arts focused education will not prepare their children sufficiently for college admission or for the work environment” (45)
 * 15) To be considered a art-focused 40% of the school day is solely focused on arts education
 * 16) Magnet school in particular have recorded and considered their successes as:
 * 17) Higher than average citywide test scores
 * 18) Graduation rates
 * 19) College acceptance rates
 * 20) Scholarships awarded
 * 21) Success after college
 * B. Hanna, Judith. __Partnering Dance and Education - Intelligent Moves for Changing Times.__ Chicago: Human Kinetics, 1999. **

1. "Dance, however, can also facilitate learning other academic disciplines and life skills. Not only can students learn the discipline of dance, but they can also learn about dance and through dance. Through dance education students can discover and address personal and public concerns about health, gender, ethnicity, self and their national identity" (2) 2. "dance has a context or ecology,a nd a history. These facets of dance make it a liberal art, part of he humanities and social and behavioral science"(26) 3. The punch of a dance performance in its first flesh-and-blend incarnation carries over to metaphoric transformations

> > **D. Relic, Peter. "No Art on Tuesday". Art Education 32(1979): 4-7** > > >> 2. "Effective teaching is more than transmitting a predetermined sequence of information to a group of receptive students. Good teaching requires engaging students in the discovery of knowledge for themselves, knowledge that expands and enriches what they already know about a subject. The learning process is different for each student, and an effective teacher is someone who can help every student become a learner, even when such activities deviate from state and district curriculum guidelines" (38) 3. One of the most prominent 'adult issues' that heavily effect the students are what benefits the school will receive. Question most definitely arise 'how much money will be spent?' along with 'where will the money go?' (39) Thesis A public high school's purpose is to prepare a student for the future; however, this purpose is often not met. Due to federal and state regulations, budget constraints, and //societal stigmas// (?)of education, schools often focus purely on academics, overlooking the importance of performing arts. Performing arts must be supported in public school and become an essential part of the academic program because of positive effects on communication, self-awareness, and integration with learning skills.
 * C. Logan,Moira. "Dance in the Schools: A Personal Account".Theory into Practice 23(1984): 300-302**
 * 1) "Kinesthesia, our sense if movement, is in my view the mediating link between our inner world of the pyshic experience and the outer world of objects and events" (301)
 * 2) Class rooms and dance have e basic commonality of
 * 1) "the aesthetic dimension of movement, is demystified for the children, it is available and open to them[kids]"(301)
 * 2) After children progress beyond elementary grades the nonverbal experience of teaching that is experienced with dance is completely neglected and replaced with "rational and analytical aspects of human consciousness" (301)
 * 1) Kinestetics is teaching the appreciation of and understanding how movement happens as well as the feeling accompanying it(302)
 * 2) 'Men are afraid without even being aware of their fear to recognize the most wonderful of all the structures of the universe -- the human body" ( Maisel, 1969 p.xiv) (Alexander 302)
 * 1) "the arts cirriculum in the schools need a total community support system in order to thrive. The support not only from people who are directly involved in the cirriculum; it also can be a persuasive attitude, an enviroment which helps people to think positively about the arts(7)
 * 2) "the art and music are considered minor subjects and dance and drama are regulated to extra-curricular level" (5)
 * 3) Because over more testing implemented in schools there has been a severe cut in arts programs in schools (5)
 * 4) one of the more focused tactics for gets arts more supported in schools was having
 * E. Hill, Paul, Lawrence Pierce, and James Guthrie. __Reinventing Public Education.__ ****Chicago University: Chicago Press, 1997. **
 * 1) There are reason/evidence to support that the idea that the education benchmarkers "No Child Left Behind" is no rigid that its difficult to add any type change(29)
 * the schools that are successful with students are considered 'special' because usually they have foundation grant, strong business support, or have 'magnet' status. Providing them with needed resources like teachers
 * Most schools don't have the money to actually implement changes in the school...."an over constrained system in which ever dollar is allocated to teacher salaries or to existing programs"
 * Worst of the problems are with school that continue to fail. Reason for the fails in cases other than neglect have been because the improvement efforts have not been for education but programs with multiple stages like counseling programs

Findings & Support

1. Comprehending what a magnet school is and how they are managed by the state a. A3, A5, E1, A4, A5 2. The most common place response on where dance should be integrated with class room learning was in the elementary grades.Not only would it more successful because children at that age are open to it but it can be more easily integrated into their education. a. A3, B4,B2, C3, C4 3. When more mature students were discussed it seemed that need for dance was a personal inquiries that are realized through the discipline of dance. a. C1, B1, A1, A2, C4 4. Understood the reason for the lack of performing arts in the majority public school a. E1,E3, D1, D2, D3, A6 5. Surspringly it seems as though government testing is a hurdle that the arts have had to get over to be implemented in schools. a. E1, C3