Gillanders, CarolCasal de la Fuente, LucíaEirín Nemiña, RaúlCandisano Mera, José Agustín2025-11-272025-11-272025-04-02Gillanders, 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/10.1080/15290824.2024.24475581529-0824https://hdl.handle.net/10347/44035Dance, 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 fieldengThis is an Accepted Manuscript version of the following article, accepted for publication in Journal of Dance Education; 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. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/DanceBodyCurriculumEarly childhood educationjournal article10.1080/15290824.2024.24475582158-074Xembargoed access