The Arts and Creative Pedagogies (EDUC91025)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Online
About this subject
Contact information
Term 2
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Overview
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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: 4 March 2025