48-5 The Application of dance therapy concept to enhancing the emotional intelligence of 8th grade junior high school students -The G. Vico approach
| Yu-Ling Liu | |
| Ming Chuan University |
The purposes of the study are: (1) to familiar with how to conduct collaborative action research to aid teacher-researcher gain or get an insight into their teaching life. (2) to investigate how to assist a performing arts teacher in developing her insights and how to enhance junior high students’emotional intelligence. (3) to understand teachers’ transformative processes of applying Vico’s thought and dance therapy concepts. To achieve these purposes, the qualitative data include audio and video recording, interviewing with teacher and students, and documents produced at course design meetings. The quantitative data collection includes pre- and post-tests on emotional intelligence. The results showed that: (1) Conducting collaborative action research facilitated communication between teachers and school faculty; it increased awareness and reflection of issues that affected learning and professionalism. (2) Emotional mentoring program were not only enhancing students’ emotional intelligence, but also improving teachers and school faculty professional development. (3) Collaborative action research was a way for helping teachers interpret at the process of teacher inquiry teaching transformation from Vico’s thought and dance therapy concepts to implement and experience curriculum.
Keywords
dance therapy、Vico approach、collaborative action research、emotion intelligence、teaching transformation
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