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Title: | Between memory and movement: A dancing-womanist-scholar in, not of, kinesiology |
Author(s): | Hall, Grenita Greer |
Director of Research: | Littlefield, Melissa; Oliver, Cynthia |
Doctoral Committee Chair(s): | Littlefield, Melissa |
Doctoral Committee Member(s): | Sydnor, Synthia; Brown, Ruth Nicole; Petruzzello, Steven J. |
Department / Program: | Kinesiology & Community Health |
Discipline: | Kinesiology |
Degree Granting Institution: | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Degree: | Ph.D. |
Genre: | Dissertation |
Subject(s): | Dance
Kinesiology |
Abstract: | Because kinesiology is historically linked to physical education, two specific aspects of physical activity-exercise and sport-currently receive primary attention from kinesiologists (Charles, 1994). Consequently, kinesiology has not fully embraced dance, considered a non- exercise/non-sport based endeavor, with the same enthusiasm as its exercise and sport based counterparts. My dissertation re-introduces and (re) presents dance to the field of kinesiology, advocating that it and other humanistic, subjective movement receive equal consideration as viable movement practice. To accomplish this, I explore how memories of my lived experiences, from childhood to my years in the department of Kinesiology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, have influenced and informed my current dance life and practice. I also show that the field of physical education-evolved-kinesiology has a rich history in dance, and use my personal experience as a dancer to inform the constructed notions of what physical cultural studies scholar David Andrews (2008) terms ‘epistemological hierarchies’ within the discipline’s movement practices. |
Issue Date: | 2015-04-16 |
Type: | Text |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2142/78392 |
Rights Information: | Copyright 2015 Grenita Hall |
Date Available in IDEALS: | 2015-07-22 |
Date Deposited: | May 2015 |
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Dissertations and Theses - Kinesiology and Community Health
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Graduate Dissertations and Theses at Illinois
Graduate Theses and Dissertations at Illinois