Feedback inom dansundervisning : en kvalitativ studie om danslärares förhållningsätt till och användning av feedback i undervisning

Sammanfattning: The aim of this study is to investigate how different approaches and methods for giving feedback can be articulated, problematized and discussed. Also, to produce a bigger knowledge about how feedback is used in a contemporary dance teaching context and to pay attention to feedback in dance teaching. The investigation is made by qualitative methods there three dance teachers have been interviewed and their answers were analyzed by disposing their answers in categories. The result of the study shows that teachers’ feedback can have different forms and their choices depends on several factors. Teachers’ intention is to not comment their pupils’ appearance and instead focus on dance-related aspects and use feedback consciously. The aim of teachers’ feedback is to develop and improve pupils’ dance practice and includes also problems and difficulties that can be encountered in the communication. However, the study contains and present how just a small part of dance teachers experience feedback and cannot be representative for the all dance teachers in one country or even institution.