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Primary Arts Education 1 (EDUC90887)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 6.25On Campus (Parkville)
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About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
July
Please refer to the LMS for up-to-date subject information, including assessment and participation requirements, for subjects being offered in 2020.
Overview
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This subject introduces Teacher Candidates to the field of arts education, with a focus on drama, music and the visual arts in primary education, and the role of digital and design technologies within the arts. Teacher Candidates will engage in theoretical and practical studies to become familiar with a range of knowledge, skills, processes and pedagogies for developing drama, music and visuals arts programs in the primary school. Teacher Candidates will explore digital and design technologies through the lens of design thinking and the arts, involving strategies for planning, analysing and generating designed solutions. They will examine the place of arts education and digital and design technologies in current policies including national and state curriculum developments, as well as national and international platforms such as UNESCO. Through reflection on their studio experiences, Teacher Candidates will understand the ways in which learning in the Arts and digital and design technologies supports cultural understanding, creativity and innovation, imaginative uses of technology, and communication through contemporary, traditional and emerging arts forms.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, Teacher Candidates should be able to:
Graduate Standards refers to the Graduate-level Australian Professional Standards for Teachers.
- Demonstrate strong subject and pedagogical content knowledge and understanding of the Arts teaching area and the digital and design technologies curriculum, specifically design thinking strategies for planning, analysing and generating designed solutions (Graduate Standards 1.2, 2.1, 6.2)
- Reflect critically on the ways students learn in and through the Arts, with reference to arts education theoretical perspectives (Graduate Standards 1.2, 2.1),
- Draw upon a range of resources (strategies, ideas, tools, and techniques) for supporting student participation and engagement in arts-based classroom experiences (Graduate Standards 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6)
- Understand the place and role of the Arts and digital and design technologies in the Victorian curriculum and whole school policy (Graduate Standards 2.1, 2.3)
- Positively identify as a member of a community of arts learners (Graduate Standards 6.3, 6.4)
- Work collaboratively in a group to create artworks and designed solutions (Graduate Standards 4.1, 6.3, 7.1, 7.4)
- Demonstrate knowledge of digital and design technologies and blended learning resources to cater for a diversity of needs and purposes (Graduate Standards 2.6, 3.4)
- Reflect on their own developing capacity, confidence and agency for teaching in the Arts to improve student learning (Graduate Standards 1.1, 2.1, 4.1)
Generic skills
This subject will develop the following set of key transferable skills:
- Clinical reasoning and thinking
- Problem solving
- Evidence based decision making
- Creativity and innovation
- Teamwork and professional collaboration
- Learning to learn and metacognition
- Responsiveness to a changing knowledge base
- Reflection for continuous improvement
- Linking theory and practice
- Inquiry and research
- Active and participatory citizenship.
Last updated: 10 February 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 10 February 2024
Assessment
Due to the impact of COVID-19, assessment may differ from that published in the Handbook. Students are reminded to check the subject assessment requirements published in the subject outline on the LMS
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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Essay
| Mid semester | 40% |
Portfolio Artefact
| End of semester | 60% |
Attendance at drama-based incursion
| Mid semester | N/A |
Hurdle requirement: Minimum of 80% attendance at all scheduled lectures, tutorials, seminars and workshops. | Throughout the teaching period | N/A |
Last updated: 10 February 2024
Dates & times
- July
Principal coordinator Richard Sallis Coordinator Marnee Watkins Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 18 hours Total time commitment 85 hours Teaching period 20 July 2020 to 25 September 2020 Last self-enrol date 3 August 2020 Census date 25 August 2020 Last date to withdraw without fail 13 October 2020 Assessment period ends 2 November 2020 July contact information
Time commitment details
85 hours
Additional delivery details
This subject is delivered either partially or fully in-person in Second Half Year 2020. Please ensure you are able to attend any essential in-person requirements or speak to Stop 1 about alternative subject options.
Last updated: 10 February 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
Sinclair, C., Jeanneret, N., O’Toole, J. & Hunter, M. (Eds.) (2017). Education in the Arts (Third edition). South Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
- Related Handbook entries
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Type Name Course Master of Teaching (Primary)
Last updated: 10 February 2024