Abstract
ABSTRACT During the course of a program evaluation for Footprints Dance Project Society of Alberta, we uncovered a discrepancy between children and parents regarding both motivation for program participation and expected outcomes. At Footprints Dance Project, we work with a diverse group of children, primarily from low socioeconomic backgrounds. Despite advertising ourselves as an organization providing dance programs for children to experience dance—promoting a love of dance and artistic activities—one third of our parents expressed a primary expectation for their child to develop life skills through our program. Thirty-seven percent of our parents did not mention learning dance as an expectation of our community dance program at all. This contrasted starkly with both our child respondents’ motivations as well as our own assumptions. We discuss this dichotomy and its implications in community programming, both for program delivery and recruitment.
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