Educational Policies and Academic Research on Dance in the School in Brazil: a network movement

Abstract

The paper aims to map educational policies, official documents and academic works related to Dance in The School to draw an overview, situating the major public initiatives and research involved in the insertion of dance teachers in the school institution within the Brazilian context. This is a documental and bibliometric quali-quantitative work, comprising the period between 1990 and 2017. It is concluded that to analyze the establishment of the academic field in Dance in the School in Brazil, it is necessary to identify actions that influence the development of this practice under the perspective of a systemic and relational view.