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Engaging Children in the Arts (EDUC91064)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Dual-Delivery (Parkville)
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About this subject
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- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
Semester 1
Dr Emily Wilson: emily.wilson@unimelb.edu.au
Overview
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This subject introduces and develops Teacher Candidates’ practical and theoretical understandings of learning in and through the Arts, play-based learning and creative pedagogies in early childhood settings and primary classrooms. Teacher Candidates engage with Drama, Music and Visual Arts in relation to the Victorian Early Years Learning and Development Framework’s understandings of creative skills and play-based learning and the Victorian Curriculum, investigating their application as individual artforms and across the Arts Learning Area, the Capabilities, and the Cross-Curricular Priorities.
Teacher Candidates are introduced to practical approaches to foreground Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives in and through the Arts in early childhood settings and primary schools. A range of resources (strategies, ideas, tools, techniques, digital technologies) are used to supporting young children’s participation and engagement in arts-based experiences that cater for diverse learners. Teacher Candidates link their studio practice to relevant theory and practicum experience to formulate a rationale for their emerging arts pedagogy, with an emphasis on continued professional learning in the arts.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, Teacher Candidates should be able to:
- Examine subject and pedagogical content knowledge and understanding of the Arts Learning Area in the Australian/Victorian Early Years Learning and Development Frameworks and Curricula.
- Integrate educational theories and practical approaches for differentiated teaching in and teaching through the Arts to challenge and cater for the needs of all learners.
- Create a collection of resources (strategies, techniques, processes, ideas, tools, digital technologies/ICT) for planning, organising, sequencing, assessing and evaluating learning programs that support participation and engagement for all learners in arts-based classroom experiences.
- Apply understandings of practical approaches to foreground Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories, knowledges and cultures for teaching in and through the Arts.
- Analyse own developing capacity, confidence and agency for teaching in and through the Arts to improve teaching and learning and set personal goals to improve teaching based on the Professional Teaching Standards.
- Use a range of verbal and non-verbal communication strategies to manage learning, participation and engagement in the Arts.
Generic skills
This subject will develop the following set of key transferable skills:
- Clinical reasoning and evidence-based practice.
- Critical and creative thinking.
- 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.
- Ethical and intercultural understanding.
Last updated: 10 February 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
Corequisites
Non-allowed subjects
EDUC90563 Engaging Children in the Arts
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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Digital Arts Artefact and Exegesis: Part 1: Creation of a video (5 minutes; 500 words equivalent). Part 2: Written critical reflection (1500 words)
| Early semester | 40% |
Arts Teaching Portfolio: Inquiry in and through the arts
| During the examination period | 60% |
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
- Semester 1
Coordinator Emily Wilson Mode of delivery Dual-Delivery (Parkville) Contact hours 24 hours on campus classes Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 28 February 2022 to 29 May 2022 Last self-enrol date 11 March 2022 Census date 31 March 2022 Last date to withdraw without fail 6 May 2022 Assessment period ends 24 June 2022 Semester 1 contact information
Dr Emily Wilson: emily.wilson@unimelb.edu.au
Last updated: 10 February 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
Sinclair et al (2017). Education in the Arts (3rd Edition). Oxford.
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Master of Teaching (Early Childhood and Primary) - Links to additional information
Melbourne Graduate School of Education: https://education.unimelb.edu.au/
Last updated: 10 February 2024