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The Arts and Creative Pedagogies (EDUC91025)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Online
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About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
Term 2
Email: continuing-education@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: + 61 3 8344 0149
Contact hours: https://unimelb.edu.au/professional-development/contact-us
Overview
Availability | Term 2 - Online |
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This subject examines learning in and through the arts, including music, drama, dance, and the visual arts, with a focus on aesthetics, symbolic communication and creative pedagogies. Students will investigate how children make meaning through creative inquiry as part of sustainable communities. Students will design, implement and evaluate arts experiences for young children, informed by practical and theoretical studies. Students will develop an informed knowledge of arts-based and culturally sustaining pedagogies that include Indigenous Worldviews and concepts of Country.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- Evaluate and contextualise the poetics and aesthetics of early childhood settings and local place and Country
- Conceptualise and apply how arts-based creative and cultural pedagogies involve multiple ways of being and doing, promoting creativity, technological experimentation, and acting in sustainable ways
- Apply the languages of the arts to build rich, interdisciplinary experiences in early childhood settings that examines the materiality of the socio-cultural-environmental and aesthetic needs of children and their communities
Generic skills
- Problem solving
- Evidence based decision making
- Creativity and innovation
- Responsiveness to a changing knowledge base
- 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
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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Journal: 4 entries x 250 words
| Throughout the Term, due Week 9 | 20% |
Artistic response to readings (creative work plus exegesis)
| Week 5 | 50% |
Portfolio
| Week 9 | 30% |
Last updated: 10 February 2024
Dates & times
- Term 2 - Online
Principal coordinator Jeanne Marie Iorio Coordinator Jayson Cooper Mode of delivery Online Contact hours 24 hours (may include virtual office hours through chat/zoom, video mail bag, discussion boards, flip grids, and interactive readings) Total time commitment 170 hours Pre teaching start date 25 April 2022 Pre teaching requirements During the pre-teaching period, students should familiarise themselves with the online platform and may like to take the opportunity to read through preliminary information about the subject and the services and support that is available to them. Students are encouraged to use this time to also introduce themselves to peers and teaching staff and to learn about those they will be studying with throughout the term. Time commitment for pre‐teaching activities is approximately 3 hours. Teaching period 2 May 2022 to 26 June 2022 Last self-enrol date 26 April 2022 Census date 20 May 2022 Last date to withdraw without fail 10 June 2022 Assessment period ends 3 July 2022 Term 2 contact information
Email: continuing-education@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: + 61 3 8344 0149
Contact hours: https://unimelb.edu.au/professional-development/contact-us
Last updated: 10 February 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
There are no specifically prescribed or recommended texts for this subject.
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Graduate Diploma in Early Childhood Teaching
Last updated: 10 February 2024