ABSTRACT

Private dance studios exist outside the scope of K-12 institutions in the United States and serve students within their local communities. Many of them strive to benefit underrepresented groups fthrough community engagement initiatives. This mixed-method study scrutinizes the various community engagement practices of private dance studios through a grounded theory approach to investigate the following research questions: 1) What are the different ways private studios engage with community engagement practices? 2) How are the concepts of ‘community’ and ‘engagement’ perceived and manifested within dance studio practices? 3) How do community contexts and external environments influence the management of community engagement practices of dance studios? By engaging systems thinking and existing literature on arts-based civic engagement, we propose a three-level community engagement conceptual framework for dance programs and studios to better understand their communities and apply systems thinking to leverage resources and constraints within and beyond programs and organizations.

摘要

私人舞蹈工作室存在于美国 K-12 机构范围之外，为当地社区的学生提供服务。他们中的许多人努力通过社区参与计划使代表性不足的群体受益。这项混合方法研究通过扎根的理论方法审查了私人舞蹈工作室的各种社区参与实践，以调查以下研究问题：1) 私人工作室参与社区参与实践的不同方式是什么？2) “社区”和“参与”的概念在舞蹈工作室实践中是如何被感知和体现的？3) 社区背景和外部环境如何影响舞蹈工作室社区参与实践的管理？通过系统思考和现有的关于以艺术为基础的公民参与的文献，