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This chapter explores the relationship between creative learning methods utilized in the arts and education by focusing on a dance educational experience in Cairo. In 2014, groundbreaking training of dance trainers titled SEEDS took place in Egypt. The author was involved in this experiment and conducted a session on dance transmission. She used a creative tool developed by a Belgian-Moroccan choreographer to engage the trainees in a reflexive attitude toward their teaching. By means of a qualitative research method, this chapter describes the multilayered teaching-learning process this artistic device activated. It presents a case study on applied phenomenology reflecting on concepts of deterritorialization and embodied knowledge in arts education can be discussed. This chapter is intended to broaden further research on arts-based and research-informed dance education and its impacts in Egypt and neighboring Arab countries.
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Khoury, K. (2017). Exploring a Creative Learning Process in Dance Education in Egypt. In: Barton, G., Baguley, M. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Global Arts Education. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55585-4_30
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