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Early Childhood Multimodal Literacies (EDUC91057)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Not available in 2022
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Overview
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This subject will support Teacher Candidates’ ability to recognize the value of multimodal literacies in early childhood settings, and critically reflect and conceptualise how multimodal literacies can operate as a decolonising force in early childhood settings.
This subject will support Teacher Candidates’ understanding of the value of multimodal literacies including linguistic, spatial/visual, kinesthetic, oral, and aural, and environmental/Place. Specific emphasis will be given to how multimodal practices of teaching and learning can be implemented to decolonise the early childhood curriculum, enabling the inclusion of multiple and diverse ways of making meaning as daily teaching practices. The following frameworks will be addressed in the subject include the Early Years and Learning Framework, Victorian Early Learning and Development Framework, and The Australian Curriculum.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, Teacher Candidates should be able to:
- Critically reflect on literacy practices and illustrate how multimodal literacies can be implemented in early childhood settings.
- Design and enact diverse multimodal literacy learning ecologies that are respectful of culture, belonging, and diverse knowledges, and that foreground Indigenous Worldviews and sustainable practices.
- Incorporate new technologies as part of multimodal literacies to enrich meaning making and communication of ideas in contemporary times.
- Elucidate the value and practices of multimodal literacies including linguistic, spatial/visual, kinesthetic, oral, and aural, and environmental/Place.
Generic skills
This subject will develop the following set of key transferable skills:
- Creativity and innovation.
- Responsiveness to a changing knowledge base.
- Inquiry and research.
- Active and participatory citizenship.
- Ethical and intercultural understanding.
Last updated: 10 February 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
Corequisites
Non-allowed subjects
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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Video: Presentation on multimodal literacies (5‐8 minutes)
| Early semester | 40% |
Individual Presentation: Visual presentation on a multimodal learning experience (8-10 minutes)
| Mid semester | 40% |
Case study: Written pedagogical narration of the multimodal literacies learning experience
| During the examination period | 20% |
Attendance Hurdle requirement: A minimum of 80% attendance at, or engagement with, all sessions identified as contact hours (may include lectures, tutorials, seminars and workshops, both synchronous and asynchronous). | Throughout the teaching period | N/A |
Last updated: 10 February 2024
Dates & times
Not available in 2022
Time commitment details
Total time commitment: 170 hours. Contact Hours: 24 hours (16 hours of on-campus classes and 8 hours of asynchronous online activities).
Additional delivery details
This subject will be available in Semester 1, 2023.
Last updated: 10 February 2024
Further information
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Prescribed texts
There are no specifically prescribed or recommended texts for this subject.
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This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Master of Teaching (Early Childhood) - Links to additional information
Melbourne Graduate School of Education: https://education.unimelb.edu.au/
Last updated: 10 February 2024