Competency-based curriculum for the expansion of university students’ career spectrums in the dance department

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study was to explore the competency-based curriculum to expand Korean university students’ career spectrums in dance departments. A literature review and a two-time Delphi analysis with seven experts was carried out at the beginning of the study to discover necessary competencies. Thereafter, an Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) with another 23 experts was performed to explore the hierarchy of these competencies. Another group of three experts reviewed the dance curricula of six different universities and classified each course in a competency table to understand which competencies were more pursued than others in dance departments. The literature review and Delphi analysis resulted in 10 competencies with 43 subcomponents, with a Content Validity Ratio (CVR) of .99. Among the competencies, ‘Dance performance’ was ranked highest with a weight of .187, while ‘Multiculturalism’ was ranked lowest at .030 in the AHP (.1> consistency index and consistency ratio). In the last phase of the study involving three experts, the competencies pursued in each course were examined, and it was revealed that the number of courses pursuing the competency of ‘Liberal Arts & General Studies’ were overwhelming in the dance curriculum.

KEYWORDS:

• Dance
• competency
• career
• AHP
• Delphi
• curricular reform

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Min-Hye Shin

Min-Hye Shin (Main author)

• Master in the Dept. of Physical Education at Sookmyung Women’s Univ.

• Doctorate in the Dept. of Physical Education at Sookmyung Women’s Univ.

• Instructor at Sookmyung Women’s Univ. and Sejong Univ.

Nam Ki Cho

Nam Ki Cho (Corresponding author)

• Master in the Dept. of Physical Education at Teachers College, Columbia Univ.

• Doctorate in the Dept. of Physical Education at Teachers College, Columbia Univ.

Professor in the Dept. of Physical Education at Sookmyung Women’s Univ.