Resumen de Motivation in dance education: analysis of self-determination theory

Delia Ibáñez Granados, Manuel Fernández Cruz

• This paper addresses an analysis of self-determined motivation level students having dance: classical dance, modern dance, Belly Dancing and Ballroom, taught at the School of Music and Dance Ogíjares (Granada), attending age and the group to which they belong. By applying a questionnaire translated into Castilian by Moreno, Cervello, and Martinez (2007) instrument called Behavioral Regulation in Exercise Questionnaire-2 (BREQ-2: Markland and Tobin, 2004), with different items adapted to the field of dance. Building on the conceptualization of different minitheories that form the TAD (Self-determination theory), since motivation is an important factor in the education of dance.