Ilana Morgan researches dance education for justice-involved youth, focusing on dance experiences as social justice and as a restorative practice.
ABOUT
Dr. Ilana Morgan is an Associate Professor at Texas Woman’s University in the Division of Dance. She teaches dance pedagogy and theory courses, coordinates the MA in Dance and the BA in Dance with Teacher Certification, and mentors and guides student teachers and graduate students. Her research focuses on dance education as social justice with justice-involved and detained youth and contributes to the field of dance in areas such as restorative and trauma-informed practices for the dance classroom and choreography as an expressive wellness practice. This research and advocacy considers issues of confinement and freedom, governmental approaches to rehabilitation, juvenile justice, autonomy, democracy, and trauma-informed pedagogy. She has published articles in the Journal of Dance Education, the Journal of Emerging Dance Scholarship, and a chapter in Dance Education and Responsible Citizenship: Promoting Civic Engagement through Effective Dance Pedagogies.
NEWS
National Endowment for the Arts Blog
Dance has the Power to Bypass Various Forms of Control
Delo: Slovenian National Newspaper
TWU Professor Helps Community Through Dance Program
North Texas Daily
TWU's Morgan Reaches Justice-involved Youth Through Dance
Division and Alumni News | Dance
Empowering Students With Dance
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LATEST ARTICLES
Classroom as Laboratory: Teacher Self Study and Dance Education
Dance Research Methodologies: Ethics, Orientations, and Practices
Arts Education and Citizenship: A Pedagogical Framework
Dance Education and Responsible Citizenship: Promoting Civic Engagement through Effective Dance Pedagogies
Dance Education in Practice
HIGHLIGHTS
Awarded an NEA 2023-24
$35,000 research grant in the arts to support social and emotional (SEL) health in a juvenile probation and post-adjudication correctional facility for teen girls via dance learning as an intervention.
Contributed a book chapter entitled "Classroom as Laboratory: Teacher Self-Study and Dance Education" in the book Dance Research Methodologies: Ethics, Orientations, and Practices
Co-writer on "Creating High School Dance Programming: Comprehensive Dance Education Program or Dance/Drill Team? or Both?" academic article for Dance Education Practices Vol. 7
Awarded TWU’s Arts and Humanities $5,000 grant for dance education research with students at the
Juvenile Probation and Post-adjudication Correctional Facility
in Denton County, Texas