1 The action of implementing creative dance in school education in Taiwan Yi-jung Wu, Assistant Professor Department of Dance, Taipei Physical Education College email: yijungwu99@gmail.com Ching-lung Tseng, Health and Physical Education Teacher New-Taipei Jiangcui Elementary School email: longy@master.yles.tcc.edu.tw Min-ping Lin, Performing Arts Teacher Taoyuan Da-You Junior High School email: ddhv1221@yahoo.com.tw Abstract Since the Nine-year Curriculum’s launch in 2000, there have been an increasing number of studies on the implementation of creative dance or its related elements in the context of school education in Taiwan. Most of the researchers in creative dance were full-time teachers who, with or without a professional dance background, made efforts to solve practical problems in their work by conducting action research in their classes. This panel discusses this trend of “teachers as researchers” by investigating how teacher-researchers have brought related elements of creative dance into Taiwanese schools. First, Dr. Wu reviewed 30 Master’s theses that employed action research as the primary research method to investigate the implementation of creative dance in schools in Taiwan under the construct of the Nine-year Curriculum. She analyzed their rationales and purposes; the spiraling cycles of action research, which are planning, acting, observing, and reflecting; and research findings. The other two panelists, who are full-time teachers in elementary and junior high schools, respectively, shared their experiences of integrating dance into various learning areas for school children. Min-ping Lin presented her action research, which explored her experience of teaching street dance within the framework of creative dance. Street dance was used as the medium of creative dance teaching to stimulate the students’ motivation for learning. Sessions were arranged into a process of action research, through which the progress of students was examined and the teaching experience of the teacher accordingly reflected upon.The findings suggested that using street dance could effectively promote the learning motivation of students. In creative dance, students experienced the process of self-exploration in both body and mind. The teachers inspired students’ creativity and imagination by implementing a series of play-like activities. Conducting action research enhanced the teachers’ professional development, sharpening their vision of curriculum development of creative dance. The research results could be looked upon as a reference for curriculum design in the performing arts. Ching-lung Tseng, who is a long-time folk dance practitioner, questioned the “mimicking” teaching method in folk dance teaching. In her study, she tried to stimulate students’ creativity by guiding them to change movement elements within the original folk dance styles. In addition to being introduced to dance costumes, music, and culture, her students were taught basic dance steps and how to create a dance out of them. She applied an action research method to 15 folk