Integrated Teaching Model: Teaching Sports Dance in Tertiary Education in China

Abstract

In China, dance sports took a while to catch on but advanced quickly. The education system has to be improved, and its professional positioning is still unclear. Thus, it was timely to conduct a study on the teaching of sports dance. Using quantitative descriptive comparative correlational study, the study involved college students from five universities in China. It investigated the potential of an integrated teaching model in teaching sports dance in colleges and universities there. The study revealed that college students have high learning gains in dance sports courses regardless of their age, but low learning gains in class resources, learning attitudes, and integration. Moreover, they have different learning gains in sports dance courses in terms of class resources where 18 to 21 years old college students had a higher rating than those who were 21 to 23 years old. In terms of the teaching set, the college students evaluated high remarks to the teaching attitudes and interaction with students, unlike in the teaching methods where female students outperformed male students. Furthermore, this initiative offered a paradigm shift in teaching sports dance from a traditional to a student-centered approach. Also, the proposed study provided a significant contribution to the dearth of literature on teaching sports dance to college students. Lastly, the results of this study were the basis for the design of the integrated teaching model plan for sports dance courses in colleges and universities.