Artistic Inquiry into Improvisation-based Intra-active Dance Pedagogy in Early Childhood Education
Abstract
This artistic doctoral research investigates improvisation-based, intra-active dance pedagogy within Finnish early childhood education and care (ECEC). It is driven by the aim of developing dance education practices that align with the embodied, play-based nature of ECEC, while also advancing theoretical and methodological approaches in artistic research. Grounded in a posthuman orientation, the study conceptualises dance improvisation as an emergent,
