Date of Award:

5-1956

Document Type:

Thesis

Degree Name:

Master of Science (MS)

Department:

Kinesiology and Health Science

Department name when degree awarded

Physical Education

Committee Chair(s)

H. B. Hunsaker

Committee

H. B. Hunsaker

Committee

E. A. Jacobsen

Committee

L. G. Noble

Abstract

Social dancing has for many years occupied a position of prominence in the physical education curriculum at the Box Elder Junior Division. It has maintained this position because of the recognized necessity to help students of the junior high age overcome a social barrier which is quite pronounced.

Irwin suggests:

It is now generally accepted that the social development of pupils is an important part of general education. Desirable social relationships are extremely important in all phases of school life as well as in adult life . . . Social dancing should be stressed for boys and girls because of its social value in adult life (7, p. 45).

The dancing program puts the boys and girls together in a situation designed to help them accept each other and feel more comfortable in each other's company.

Modern education has accepted the social dance as one of the integral parts of life today (12).

The social dance curriculum as now being followed, along with the philosophy, aims, and desired outcomes, has been established by the physical education teachers, with the approval of the school principal, to meet the requirements as set forth in the Utah State Course of Study. Student, parent, and total faculty thinking has not been included. It is believed that the thinking of these groups should be considered.

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