Includes bibliographical references (pages 531-534) and index.

Introduction : thinking about dance education -- Viewing educational dance from an arts education perspective -- Examining how national arts initiatives affect dance -- Adopting your roles and responsibilities for teaching -- Emphasizing aspects of student-centered learning -- Identifying the cornerstones of dance as art in education -- Dancing and performing : cornerstone 1 -- Creating and composing : cornerstone 2 -- Knowing history, culture, and context : cornerstone 3 -- Analyzing and critiquing : cornerstone 4 -- Constructing artistic bridges to other disciplines -- Creating and maintaining an effective arts learning environment -- Investigating the arts savvy curriculum, instruction, and assessment triad -- Integrating the cornerstones to create units of study in dance -- Creating a unit of study using an arts education perspective -- Reflecting on teaching -- Developing an arts-oriented teaching portfolio.

Brenda McCutchen provides an integrated approach to dance education, using four cornerstones: dancing and performing, creating and composing, historical and cultural inquiry and analysing and critiquing. She also illustrates the main developmental aspects of dance.