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The Arts Engagement and Learning (EDUC90606)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
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This subject investigates the distinctive forms of knowledge and understanding characteristic of engagement in and learning in the arts, together with their outcomes and how they are evidenced, and explores strategies for implementation and advocacy.
Through critical observation and close analysis of their own or another arts-based educational context, the students identify the integral connections between arts, engagement and learning; the role of the arts in shaping the development of understanding of the external world and cultural, interpersonal and individual identities; and arts-specific forms of cognitive, critical, sensory, emotional and kinaesthetic understanding
Intended learning outcomes
- Understand the relationship of the arts to engagement, and their impact on cognitive, sensory, emotional, social and kinaesthetic learning;
- Identify the ways in which learning in and through the arts can produce clearly evidenced outcomes, and explore ways of evaluating the effects of learning in and through the arts;
- Investigate the strategies needed to create an arts-conscious education policy, and implement an effective arts-based learning environment.
Generic skills
- Creative and critical observational and thinking skills
- Presentational, dialogic and written communication skills
- Organisation and management of diverse information and data into analytical, synthetical and strategic configurations.
Last updated: 10 February 2024