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The Arts, Play and Young Children (EDUC91054)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5On 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
Semester 2
Dr Sarah Young: sry@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 and creative pedagogies in early childhood education. This subject references the Australian/Victorian Early Years Learning and Development Frameworks and Curricula (VEYLDF). Teacher Candidates engage with Drama, Music and Visual Arts in relation to the VEYLDF’s understandings of creative skills and play-based learning.
Arts-centred pedagogies will support the integral connection between the play, the arts, and creativity to engage young children in early childhood education. Indigenous perspectives are foregrounded to acknowledge and engage with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander contributions to the arts and arts practices in early childhood education. Teacher Candidates will participate in arts processes and reflect critically and creatively on these through a range of practices that will extend their knowledge of planning and implementing arts experiences with young children.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, Teacher Candidates should be able to:
- Investigate and articulate subject and pedagogical content knowledge and understanding of Arts teaching in early childhood.
- Integrate educational theories and practical approaches for teaching in and teaching through the Arts.
- Create a collection of resources (strategies, techniques, processes, ideas, tools, digital technologies) for planning, structuring, and sequencing 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 engage young children.
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
None
Corequisites
None
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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Exercise: Digital-arts artefact and exegesis (Part 1: 500 Words equivalent. Part 2: 1500 Words)
| Early semester | 40% |
Portfolio: Digital arts portfolio of arts resources
| 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 2
Coordinator Sarah Young Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 24 hours of on-campus classes Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 24 July 2023 to 22 October 2023 Last self-enrol date 4 August 2023 Census date 31 August 2023 Last date to withdraw without fail 22 September 2023 Assessment period ends 17 November 2023 Semester 2 contact information
Dr Sarah Young: sry@unimelb.edu.au
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Last updated: 10 February 2024
Further information
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Prescribed texts
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This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Master of Teaching (Early Childhood) - Links to additional information
Faculty of Education: https://education.unimelb.edu.au/
Last updated: 10 February 2024