The phrase "academic movement" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a trend or shift in academic thought, research, or practice within a specific field or discipline.
Example: "The academic movement towards interdisciplinary studies has transformed how we approach complex problems in education."
Alternatives: "scholarly trend" or "intellectual shift".
It is just that his choreographic concerns are now directed toward more vernacular, less academic, movement.
In this sense, efficient-market acolytes were like any other academic movement.
Humanism was not originally an academic movement but rather a program defined and promoted by statesmen and men of letters.
Senator Obama's ideas, on the other hand, draw heavily on behavioral economics, a left-leaning academic movement that has challenged traditional neoclassical economics over the last few decades.
To some people, the notion of economists studying emotions like happiness seems odd, but the research is part of a growing academic movement known as behavioral economics.
Mr. Terkel anticipated the academic movement of recent decades to tell history from below — not from the perspective of the makers of history but from the perspective of those who have been shaped by it.
Dancers — even when sheathed in tights, tunics, tutus — open their bodies up in the geometrical shapes and academic movements that ballet has codified, and so they make their bodies subject to the most intense scrutiny.
The dancers look like older versions of Billy Elliot, more or less grown-up ordinary folk without super-svelte bodies who have stumbled on the beauty of a ballet class, and without feeling inhibited to confine themselves to academic movements.
That is because on Sept. 22, my Connections column suggested that the destruction of the World Trade Center and the attack on the Pentagon could upset the presuppositions of two major academic movements: postmodernism and postcolonialism.
One geometrical construction has real ingenuity: a line of male dancers slowly revolves like the needle of a compass, while a ballerina passes down the line, being partnered, and while the men work ceremonially through the same phrase of academic movements for upper and lower body.
The University of Chicago has been the site of some important experiments and academic movements.
