Author(s)

Yanqing Lan

Corresponding Author

Yanqing Lan

Abstract

This paper studies the potential role of social dance in education, specifically the effects of adding social dance to reform preschool education dance curriculum. Firstly, the author conducted interviews at various vocational colleges to investigate the current situation of dance teaching in vocational college preschool education. According to the training goal of dance class in the preschool education major of higher vocational colleges, this paper discusses a novel methodology to integrate social dance into the dance course of the preschool education major. This paper offers a method to optimize the teaching objectives of dance courses for the preschool education major of higher vocational colleges and conforms to the market demand of “popularization” of dance education for vocational education.

Keywords

Social dance, Higher vocational education, Preschool education major, Curriculum optimization