Embodied Performance

Christina Teague-Mann conducts exemplary work in analyzing existing instructional and assessments practices, and builds productive relationships and terms to create needed teaching, learning and assessment of innovation in organizations including, student, program and institutional outcomes – Heidi Anderson Isaacson 

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An insightful educator-researcher that undertakes and facilitates creativity through methods for leadership, practice and transformative thinking. Perceptive with creating objectives, situations, methods, processes and artifacts that people can observe, comprehend, engage with, and use to hone their creative insight.

 

As an educator, Teague-Mann understands the complexity and the need for teaching for the unknown. She has actively supported graduate and undergraduate students as they realize their unique dispositions towards knowledge development to become responsible and creative professionals, and researchers. She focuses on centering student learning, authentic assessment, and ethical awareness in research practices. As a result her students are active and engaged responsible advocates and professionals in their communities. 

 

Since joining Jacksonville University as adjunct faculty  in 1998 and full-time faculty in 2005, she has taught theoretical and practical research courses, creativity courses, kinesiology courses, historical courses, discipline specific appreciation courses, and technique and performance. 

In 2009, Teague-Mann co-developed the curriculum for the Master of Fine Arts in Choreography at Jacksonville University where she co-directed until taking the position of Coordinator of International Initiatives for the program, since the launch of the program in 2010 she has remained teaching the core theoretical and practice courses. 

To date, she has initiated over ninety-three student research projects and supervised over fifty-six  through to completion. 

 

Significant to this is her work as a member of the Institutional Review Board for Research at Jacksonville University. 

The progress she has made with embodied research is an articulation of complex processes where research occurs through dynamic systems thinking that focuses on a synthesis of 4 e cognition and Practice as Research. 

This counters computational models for creativity and offers ways for creator-researchers to realize how to value, orient and enact embodied knowledge in creative processes.

 

For over 20 years she has been committed to developing and directing new educational programming. The majority of her program development 

has been for study abroad courses and exchanges in higher education that include educators and/or institutions in Canada, Scotland, England, France, Spain, Greece, The Netherlands, Germany, Dominican Republic, Cuba, Chile, Italy, and Estonia.

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Teague-Mann holds a Doctorate in Education from Alverno College, a Terminal Degree with Distinction in Choreographic Performance Creation from Trinity Laban/ City University London, and a B.F.A in Dance Performance Studies from Jacksonville University.