WORLD GAMES to SING and DANCE in the CLASSROOM and COMMUNITY

Submitted by copelco on Fri, 10/31/2008 - 19:25.

1. Sasha	Central Asia	Ukraine
2. Ven Dura	Southern Asia	Sri Lanka
3. Toumbai	Middle East	Israel
4. Uga Uga Uga	Middle East	Israel
5. A Ram Sam Sam	Northern Africa	Morocco
6. A Kapasule	Central Africa	Angola
7. Vana Vangu	Southern Africa	Zimbabwe
8. Quem Faz	Southern Africa	Mozambique
9. Tsuro	Southern Africa	Zimbabwe
10. Chitima Chinoti	Southern Africa	Zimbabwe
11. Watermelons	Southern Europe	Yugoslavia
12. Tatscher	Western Europe	Switzerland
13. Hunting Dance	North America	United States
14. Navajo Game Song	North America	United States
15. Shoo-Lie Shoo	North America	United States
16. El Florin	North America	Mexico
17. Arroz Con Pollo	South America	Argentina
18. La Mariposa	South America	Peru

We are interested in education here, not in schooling. We are interested in openings, in unexplored possibilities, not in the predicatable or quantifiable, not in what is thought of as social control. For us, education signifies an initiation into new ways of seeing, hearing, feeling, moving. It signifies the nurture of a special kind of reflectiveness and expressiveness, a reaching out for meanings, a learning to learn.

Our core concern, of course, is with aesthetic education; but we do not regard aesthetic education as in any sense a fringe undertaking, a species of 'frill.' We see it as integral to the development of persons- to their cognitive, perceptual, emotional, and imaginative development. We see it as part of the human effort (so often forgotten today) to seek a greater coherence in the world.

(Greene, Variations 7)