WRITING & RESEARCH
Ilana Morgan prioritizes the study of dance pedagogy as arts education advocacy and social justice with an emphasis on dance education for incarcerated youth.
Grants & Research
Over the past 3 years, Ilana Morgan has been teaching and researching dance pedagogy at the Juvenile Probation and Post-Adjudication Correctional Facility in Denton, Texas. This research, investigating dancemaking as development of choice-making skills, interpersonal skills, and positive citizenship, is in partnership with the Denton County Juvenile Probation Department and is funded by a TWU $5,000 Arts and Humanities Grant. Currently, this research—a combination of ethnography, teacher self-study, and student and staff interviews—is being compiled and written for submission to journals on dance education and juvenile justice.
llana Morgan is a member of a multi-departmental research team at TWU that has been awarded a $176,000 TEA Grow Your Own (GYO) Grant for the 2020-2021 academic year. This grant provides a stipend for TWU teacher candidates who complete a year-long clinical teaching residency with district partners: Era, Gainesville, and Valley View. Results of this research will be shared through journal articles and conference presentations. This research has the capacity to help understand new and sustainable teacher preparation strategies, insights regarding teacher retention, and ways to support diverse applicants for rural locations.
Chapters & Articles Published
“Arts Education and Citizenship: A Pedagogical Framework.” Dance Education and Responsible Citizenship: Promoting Civic Engagement through Effective Dance Pedagogies. Ed. Karen Schupp. New York: Routledge, 2019. 5-21. Print.
“Arts Education and Citizenship: A Pedagogical Framework.” Journal of Dance Education. Featured Article, vol 18, Fall 2018.
“Internetting and Female Undergraduate Dancers: Embodied Cognition, Dance Education, and the Extended Technological Self.” Journal of Emerging Dance Scholarship: How Dance is Analyzed and Re-Imagined in Diverse Settings, vol 4, 2016.
"Empowerment in This Dance? You Love This Dance?: Instructor and Student Together Online." Pop Culture, Media, and Education, special issue of the Journal of Dance Education, vol. 11, no. 4, 2011, pp. 119-123.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2020
Revising Dance History Pedagogy and Curriculum at the College and High School Level: Including Diverse Histories, Communities, and Voices to Broaden Students Understanding and Awareness.
National Dance Education Organization (NDEO) Conference
Online
Teaching at a Youth Correctional Facility: Compassion, Empathy, and Community through Dancemaking.
NDEO Conference
Online
2019
Dance 2050: Changed Contexts, Media, and Mentoring in Choreography.
NDEO Conference
Miami, Florida
Dance 2050: Artistic Practices and Technology.
NDEO Conference
Miami, Florida
Teaching and Dancemaking with Students Living in a County Detention Center.
The International Conference on Education
Athens, Greece
Teaching and Dancemaking with Students Living in a County Detention Center.
World Dance Alliance-Americas General Assembly Conference
El Paso, Texas
2018
Teaching and Dancemaking with Students Living in a County Detention Center.
NDEO Conference
La Jolla, California
Dance 2050: Expanding Reach and Service.
NDEO Conference
La Jolla, California
Developing and Publishing a Multimedia World Dance Forms Educational Resource for Students and Teachers at Differing Educational Levels.
World Dance Alliance Conference
Adelaide, Australia
2017
Drill Team and Dance Education in Texas.
NDEO Conference
San Antonio, Texas
Arts Education and Cultural Understanding: A Pedagogical Framework.
International Conference on Education and New Developments
Lisbon, Portugal
2016
Mindfulness and Dance Education: Encouraging Kind Citizenship.
NDEO Conference
Washington D.C
2015
New Aesthetics of Skin: Touch, Closeness, and Connectedness via an Extended Technological Internet Corporeality.
Aesthetics, Ethics, and Biopolitics of the Posthuman Conference
Aarhus, Denmark
Innovations in Dance Education: Moving Our Students in Online Learning.
NDEO Conference
Tempe, Arizona
Social Media, Dance Education, and the Extended Technological Body.
NDEO Conference
Tempe, Arizona
2012
Women's Online Dancing Bodies: Empowerment, Pop Culture, and Online Education.
Pop Culture Association and the American Culture Association's National Conference
Boston, Massachusetts