ABSTRACT
This chapter develops the proposal that learning research methods is a process of deepening participation in sociocultural practice. Relating, attending, and acting (ethics, orientations, and practices, respectively), we argue, are interconnected parts of participation in communities of dance research. We seek to make explicit the implicit skills and experiences at work in the research processes by detailing the ethics, orientations, and practices that we find fundamental to being a researcher across the disciplines of dance. Together these modes of participation facilitate the development of ethical, critical, and responsive researchers who make significant contributions to their sub-discipline as well as the field of dance as a whole. In this chapter, we draw out in broad strokes what these modes of participation are, while in the workbook we offer specific activities for the classroom or individuals where these may be experienced and rehearsed.
