EDF1064 · Creative connections 2: Music and performing arts

Overview

This unit extends your understandings developed in EDF1063 about the role art-making plays in childhood with a focus on musical and performing arts creativities. You will investigate the relationship between creative play, music, and the performing arts as vital means of belonging, being and becoming from birth to age 12, and across cultures. You will develop competencies as teachers, artists and researchers through practice-based study of musical, bodily and non-verbal forms of expression. These experiences support your theoretical understandings of fundamental sonic and kinaesthetic ways of thinking and learning in childhood. A foundation of this work is socially engaged practice that connects performing arts teaching and learning to family, community and cultures. You will address the need for culturally responsive teaching, particularly in regard to Australian First Nations and Oceanic arts and culture. Across the unit you will engage with a range of strategies and pedagogical approaches to music and performing arts teaching that develop your capacities as research-led educators.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. develop practical skills and knowledge in fostering children’s meaning-making and communication through music, dance and drama both in early childhood and primary settings
2. demonstrate an understanding of contemporary approaches and learning theories related to children’s development of communication and creativity through performing arts pedagogies
3. demonstrate an understanding of designing, implementing, documenting and evaluating meaningful performing arts experiences that respond to learners of diverse characteristics and abilities
4. develop capacities for socially engaged education through an understanding of research and practice in culturally responsive performing arts pedagogy
5. communicate arts-based research through a range of verbal, non-verbal, information and communication technologies and digital arts

Workload

The minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per teaching period comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Usually, you can expect to engage with: • 24 hours* of scheduled learning delivered on campus via weekly/regular directed learning activities; and • the remaining hours to be allocated towards self-directed/independent study Scheduled learning activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement. *Subject to variation due to professional experience requirements

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.