What difference does dance make? Critical conversations across dance, physical activity and public health.

Autor/inn/en	Watson, Beccy; Lashua, Brett; Trevorrow, Pip
Titel	What difference does dance make? Critical conversations across dance, physical activity and public health. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Welchen Unterschied macht Tanzen? Kritische Diskussion über Tanzen, körperliche Aktivität und öffentliche Gesundheitserziehung.
Quelle	In: International journal of sport policy and politics, 8 (2016) 4, S. 681-693 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1940-6940; 1940-6959
DOI	10.1080/19406940.2016.1238404
Schlagwörter	Forschung; Vergleichsuntersuchung; Forschung; Gesundheit; Gesundheitserziehung; Gesundheitswesen; Sportsoziologie; Sportwissenschaft; Soziologie; Gesundheitspolitik; Analyse; Aktivität; Tanzsport; Gesundheitssport; Gesundheitsförderung; Aktivität; Gesundheit; Gesundheitsbewusstsein; Gesundheitserziehung; Gesundheitsförderung; Gesundheitspolitik; Gesundheitswesen; Tanzen; Gesundheitssport; Sportsoziologie; Tanzsport; Soziologie; Sportwissenschaft; Analyse
Abstract	Critical conversations concerning if and how dance 'fits' within current (dominant) discourse across physical activity (PA), public health (PH) and sport policy are presented here in the form of commentaries from a 'collective' research base and individual 'worldviews' that includes the director of an established community-based dance organisation, a local authority PH commissioner and three academic researchers (a sociologist, cultural geographer and technologist). Dynamic dialogue between all parties has been encouraged throughout the research process (January-December 2015). From our viewpoints, discursive differences and occasional disciplinary dilemmas are regarded as potentially knowledge producing. We share transcribed parts of our critical conversations to illustrate how evaluating dance as PA represents opportunities for challenging if not disrupting some discursive terrain, whilst concurrently being somewhat constrained by that terrain. Our broader research remit contributes to ongoing debates surrounding 'what works' in relation to PA. Our dynamic interactions are thus constitutive of and productive within wider circuits or discourses of policy and provision. Paradigmatic rivalry or epistemological 'tensions' may well be hindering attempts to demonstrate that dance does have positive impacts on health. Acknowledgement and engagement with these tensions can arguably inform policy and practice in effective and meaningful ways and contribute further to debates regarding an evidence base seeking to 'prove' the benefits of activity-based programmes and interventions as we look across PA, PH and sport. (Autor).
Erfasst von	Bundesinstitut für Sportwissenschaft, Bonn
Update	2017/2