The aim of this study is to demonstrate within a limited scope that the concept of tradition may have important meaning in dance education. For it, Kierkegaard's self theory was first examined under its connection with education. According to him the ...
The aim of this study is to demonstrate within a limited scope that the concept of tradition may have important meaning in dance education. For it, Kierkegaard's self theory was first examined under its connection with education. According to him the structure of self comes from 'the tension between actuality and possibility'. If the measure through which a self reflects itself, in other words the object that makes a self feel tense, is great, then the self will become great. The fact that we are educated means we are on the way to 'possibility', and the education can be accomplished through the faithful initiation of tradition.
Traditional dance is both the whole intensive entity inherited from the ancestry and a language diverged as a form through which diverse aspects of the world are grasped. An individual who learns dance can not develop his self until he enters into the tradition that is greater than he.
A task of education is to let known the significance and importance of such entering into tradition.