EDF5181 · Visual art and design education in the secondary years 2A

Overview

This unit provides you with a heightened understanding of the connections between the knowledge disciplines and practices which inform visual art and design curriculum. Working collaboratively and independently, you will build skills around the development of art/design historical and art/design critical knowledge, such as research, lesson planning and unit preparation. The unit also enables you to learn about museum activities, the use of digital technologies in these spaces and the design of museum experiences for secondary school art and design students. You will explore approaches to the exhibition space and to the function of museums, in order to utilise these sites as supplements to the art classroom. Drawing on national and international literature, you will engage in your own research to develop foundational knowledge in art/design historiography and pedagogical strategies relevant to art history and art criticism that lead you back to studio practice.

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. understand the structural issues relevant to discipline-based knowledge in the visual arts
2. critically determine, select and apply appropriate art historical and art critical tasks
3. devise relevant tasks and activities for museum education in the visual arts and design fields
4. identify important pedagogical strategies in visual art and design (including those that incorporate digital technologies) that meet the needs of a diverse range of students
5. apply critical theoretical and conceptual issues to specific examples of visual art and design curriculum practice.

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.