ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with adult education - in the shape of INSET for teachers - as well as the education of children. Dance should come first. It stands alongside music as the primal form of expression and, still today, as the form of expression that most humans can use. James Berry, in the title poem of his collection When I Dance writes: …when I danceO music expands my hearing. The poem ends ‘And I celebrate all rhythms’. Dance was late on the scene as a auricular art. In schools it had been an inheritor, till the 1960s, of the PE tradition: drill, physical training/education, gymnastics, movement. All the arts teach adults as well as children. And a model for schooling that insists on delivery, which implicitly assumes that teachers have had education and that children need it, falsifies the nature of human reality as we know it.
