The purpose of this study was to explore factors on expertise of a dance educator in order to provide basic information for teacher education. life history approach with in-depth interview, individual interview with a colleague, and personal writings ...
The purpose of this study was to explore factors on expertise of a dance educator in order to provide basic information for teacher education. life history approach with in-depth interview, individual interview with a colleague, and personal writings was employed to describe and analysis data Data analysis included reducing data to conceptual themes and categories that identified as factors affecting expertise development of a dance educator. The major results of the study can summarized according to the research problem. It was found that factors affecting expertise development included numerous teaching experience before getting pre-teacher education, social relations, and teaching instruction. These factors played interacting roles coming outside and specified expertise as a dance educator.