The materials in Beyond Words have been designed to
foster dynamic learning processes that oscillate between the
concrete and the abstract, between the theoretical and the
practical. We are, of course, specifically concerned with
getting students to think more critically about movement.
Nevertheless, movement can only be understood by interrelating
perceptual skills, analytical skills, and interpretive
skills. Challenging students to make these inductive and
deductive connections in movement study may have broader
repercussions for other subject areas as well.
In summary, the immediate purpose of this program is
to enhance the understanding of human movement. Paradoxically,
however, we can only understand movement by
transcending the typical view of it as a narrow specialty. The
challenge to the instructor is to integrate these materials into
his or ner subject area so that the knowledge and skills of
movement perception, analysis and interpretation may become
meaningful and applicable in students' individual life spheres