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
In 2022 Ilana Morgan was 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. This is a continuation of investigating dancemaking as development of choice-making skills, interpersonal skills, and positive citizenship, in partnership with the Denton County Juvenile Probation Department since 2017.
Recently, Dr. Ilana Morgan had the privilege of presenting at the TWU Board of Regents 2023 August session where she provided a summary of her NEA grant-funded outreach project that introduces dance to girls in the Denton County Juvenile Post-Adjudication Facility. According to Chancellor and President Carine M. Feyten of TWU, “Dr. Morgan's work exemplifies how Texas Woman's faculty so often address societal challenges that will benefit us all.”
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
"Classroom as Laboratory: Teacher Self-Study and Dance Education." Dance Research Methodologies: Ethics, Orientations, and Practices. Ed. Rosemary Candelario and Mathew Henley. New York: Routledge, 2023. 243-258. Print.
"Creating High School Dance Programming: Comprehensive Dance Education Program or Dance/Drill Team? Or Both?" Journal of Dance Education in Practice. Featured Article, vol 7, 2021, pp. 25-30.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2023
Social and Emotional Health and Dancemaking for Youth in Detention
National Dance Education Organization (NDEO) Conference
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.
National Dance Education Organization (NDEO) Conference
Online
2019
Dance 2050: Changed Contexts, Media, and Mentoring in Choreography.
National Dance Education Organization (NDEO) Conference
Miami, Florida
Dance 2050: Artistic Practices and Technology.
National Dance Education Organization (NDEO) Conference
Miami, Florida
Teaching and Dancemaking with Students Living in a County Detention Center.
The International Conference on Education (ICEDU)
Athens, Greece
Teaching and Dancemaking with Students Living in a County Detention Center.
World Dance Alliance (WDA)-Americas General Assembly Conference
El Paso, Texas
2018
Teaching and Dancemaking with Students Living in a County Detention Center.
National Dance Education Organization (NDEO) Conference
La Jolla, California
Dance 2050: Expanding Reach and Service.
National Dance Education Organization (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 (WDA) Conference
Adelaide, Australia
2017
Drill Team and Dance Education in Texas.
National Dance Education Organization (NDEO) Conference
San Antonio, Texas
Arts Education and Cultural Understanding: A Pedagogical Framework.
International Conference on Education and New Developments (ICEDU)
Lisbon, Portugal
2016
Mindfulness and Dance Education: Encouraging Kind Citizenship.
National Dance Education Organization (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.
National Dance Education Organization (NDEO) Conference
Tempe, Arizona
Social Media, Dance Education, and the Extended Technological Body.
National Dance Education Organization (NDEO) Conference
Tempe, Arizona
“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.