lizaj
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If you think the problem lies with the instructors, then perhaps the instructors should attend classes themselves on how to become better instructors, a teacher training school perhaps. But then there lies a problem, who decides what school is the correct school, as surely as one school springs up, there will be others and there the inter school, whose better than who saga. If that is a way to go, then a controlling body is needed to police these schools to ascertain an accepted standard.
Maybe a controlling body is needed, a body that can also be there to act in such a way to correctly publicise and educate all who are interested in the art form and the culture attached. They could even be a repository for all information and there sort the wheat from the chaff
Yes, perhaps that is the way, BD has been here long enough now, maybe it is time it was controlled, overseen and standards raised, a good way forward.
I am usually opposed to any kind of control, but sometimes it is necessary for the betterment of all.
I wonders though, if there were a governing body, maybe the ASMED instructors would be involved, there improving access for all.
Improving standards is what ASMED and JWAAD is all about.
That isn't to say that there aren't teachers who have done so much to promote the dance who have no "qualification" just a hell of a lot of experience and knowledge to offer.
But not every dancer is inclined to follow a "straightjacket" and one of the beauties of the dance is that we are not tied to one defining way of dancing every step. I know dancers who followed very varied paths to competance as teachers and mentors and they must be valued.
What I really fear are the teachers who operate in a bubble, those who decry every dancer/teacher who is different in style and mission to themsevesout of hand, those who do it just for the "status" of saying they are a teacher and that's before we start on those who haven't a clue about the responsibilites of being a teacher and those who aren't safe!