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Late and exhausted, after a full day’s work with her third grade students and after being stranded on the subway platform waiting for a disabled train to be removed, Mary Ann finally arrived in her graduate class. Instead of finding an empty seat in the back of the room, she was taken aback as she saw chairs pushed against the walls, and her classmates standing in a circle taking turns clapping out the rhythm of their names.
Oh, no! I knew I was not good at expressing myself thro ugh movement and rhythm. I was very nervous and wanted to somehow disappear in the back of the room. But everyone was standing in the circle and I had no other choice but to join them… What does modern dance have to do with my teaching, anyway?
—(Mary Ann, third grade teacher)
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Jensen, D.A., Tuten, J.A., Hu, Y., Eldridge, D.B. (2010). Acting into New Ways of Thinking. In: Teaching and Learning in the (dis)Comfort Zone. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230102361_5
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