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Ilana Morgan researches dance education for incarcerated youth, focusing on dance experiences as social justice and as a restorative practice.

About

ABOUT

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Ilana Morgan, PhD, is an Associate Professor at Texas Woman’s University in the Department of Dance. She teaches dance pedagogy and theory courses, coordinates the MA in Dance, 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 incarcerated 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. 

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

Fine Arts Dance Education Program or Dance/Drill Team? Or Both?: Defining and Creating High School Dance Programming in Relationship to the National Core Arts Standards.

Dance Education in Practice

HIGHLIGHTS

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Awarded an NEA $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

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Featured in national Dance Teacher Magazine for community-engaged pedagogy and research

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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

 

 

 

Awarded a TEA “Grow Your Own” grant, $176,000, as part of a TWU multi-departmental research team

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