EDF2061 · Creative arts across the curriculum

Overview

This unit builds upon your understanding of The Arts curriculum to explore how arts-rich pedagogy can be utilised to enhance learning and classroom climates in early childhood and primary contexts. You will experience and develop a range of pedagogical practices using music, dance, drama, visual arts and/or media arts skills which encourage children to develop general capabilities of creativity, problem-solving, critical thinking and interpersonal skills and to introduce, explore and express conceptual understanding across all areas of the primary curriculum. You will also use evidence-based practice and reflective analysis of both teaching and philosophical ideas to investigate how arts-rich pedagogies can contribute to engaged learning, holistic development, well-being, critical social action and positive social environments. You will gain confidence in your own abilities to be competent, engaging and creative teachers in primary classrooms.

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

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. understand the theoretical basis of creativity and arts-rich practice in early childhood and primary educational contexts
2. interpret and understand the place of the creative arts content and pedagogy within the wider primary curriculum
3. adopt a reflective approach and enact a range of creative planning, performing and teaching strategies
4. apply understandings of arts-rich pedagogies in the development of learning activities that engage children in deep understanding, expression of personal identities and civic and social justice action.

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.