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Preface
Legacy: A bequest, anything handed down from an ancestor to a descendant.
Educational sociology examines the development of learners and how social institutions and individuals’ experiences in education affect educational practices and processes. This text considers the field of dance education and the work of its practitioners within institutions of higher edu-cation (and to a lesser but annually evolving degree, dance in K–12 educa-tion) as organized around these same ideas; that experience in dance education shapes the future dance educator’s development in her values, practices, and processes.
As an important dimension of our field, the educational sociology of dance has not been deeply attended to by scholars. There are many articles, books, and monographs on what is done in dance and by whom (and most of these are focused on dance artistry, choreography, and performance), but not many that attend to the why of what is done in dance education.