국내 무용교육학 연구동향 분석: 대한무용학회지를 중심으로

Abstract

This study aims to understand the research trends dance pedagogy in South Korea. The temporal range of this study was set to 2017 through 2021, and of the registered journals selected through the academic jour- nal evaluation of the National Research Foundation of Korea, the scope was limited to the academic journals with typicality and historicity in the field of dance studies. Concretely, 160 articles were selected as the sub- jects of analysis, out of 371 articles of the research materials published in The Korean Society of Dance(The Korean Journal of Dance). The year of the publication, research topics (keywords), research fields (areas), research method of the research materials selected as the sub- jects of analysis in this study were collected. For research fields, to secure the logical validity of criteria for classification, the reliability of classi- fication was confirmed through fellow researchers’ reviews, based on the classification table of academic research of the National Research Foundation of Korea. Then, frequency analysis and topic modeling analy- sis were conducted to analyze the research characteristics and tendencies. The research results make this study significant as a study that contrib- utes to the development of dance studies, e.g., expanding the academic ho- rizon of dance science and inducing the advancement of research methods.