RT Journal Article
T1 Dance and body-related concepts in Early Childhood Education: a review of spanish curriculum guidelines
A1 Gillanders, Carol
A1 Casal de la Fuente, Lucía
A1 Eirín Nemiña, Raúl
A1 Candisano Mera, José Agustín
K1 Dance
K1 Body
K1 Curriculum
K1 Early childhood education
AB Dance, body awareness, and movement activities can help children’s motor development, movement sensibility, and proficiency. Early Childhood Education (ECE) teachers have an important role in offering opportunities for children to explore basic anatomical actions and endless combinations of movement and dance. In this study, the position of dance, types of dances, and body-related concepts in the Spanish curriculum steering documents are reviewed. Through a systematic review, and following previous studies in the field, three main pedagogical discourses were identified: dance as cultural preserver, dance as expression, and dance as bodily exercise. Only one Spanish region includes references to dance games in ECE. There is a use of varied and rich concepts related to the body that can be grouped into three broad categories: body knowledge, body expression, and body care. Further studies exploring teachers’ practices and schemes of work would benefit the field
PB Taylor & Francis
SN 1529-0824
YR 2025
FD 2025-04-02
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10347/44035
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10347/44035
LA eng
NO Gillanders, C., Casal-de-la-Fuente, L, Eirín-Nemiña, R., & Candisano Mera, J. A. (2025). Dance and body-related concepts in Early Childhood Education: a review of spanish curriculum Guidelines. Journal of Dance Education, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1080/15290824.2024.2447558
NO This work has not received any funding.
DS Minerva
RD 22 abr 2026