미국의 국가 핵심 무용교육기준(NCAS in Dance)의 내용 및 구성 체계 탐색

Abstract

In 1926, the frist dance major in the United States was established at the University of Wisconsin. Since then, dance was gradually growing within education. However, dance was not recognized as academic study until the mid-1960. After the Goals 2000: Educate America Act emerged in 1994, all arts such as dance, music, visual arts, theatre, and media arts were included as a core content area. In the same year, the National Standards for Arts Education was published. In the United States, each states has adopted the arts standards according to their educational environments. Therefore, arts education offered unevenly, so that some local areas could not experience specific arts disciplines in school. To offer a balanced arts education across all districts in the United States, National Core Arts Standards(NCAS) was established in 2014. The NCAS standards are aligned the lifelong learning goals developed from the philosophical foundations. The NCAS standards in dance are organized grade by grade from pre-k to Grade 8 with three high school levels. A distinctive characteristic is that the NCAS standards are based on backward design and include 11 shared anchor standards with enduring understandings and essential questions. They guide students to notice what they should understand from their class. Moreover, they provide connections across each arts disciplines. Now, now many schools and private dance studios in the United States implement the new standards. This study investigates 2014 NCAS standards in dance in order to contribute to establishing dance standards in Korea. This study also presents new ideas in NCAS standards such as artistic literacy, enduring understandings essential questions, and model cornerstone assessment. These new concepts and specific performance standards in dance will be valuable for dance educators to improve curriculum management as well as professional capacities. Therefore, dance educators in Korea need to explore the NCAS standards in dance and appropriately adopt them to their own dance curriculum and standards.